Chapter 9

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split labor market

The division of workers along racial and gender lines.

scape-goat

a racial or ethnic or religious minority that absorbs all blame for wrongs.

indirect transfer

a type of population transfer, achieved by making life so miserable for members of a minority that they leave "voluntarily".

individual discrimination

he negative treatment of one person by another.

institutional discrimination

how discrimination is woven into the fabric of our society.

white ethnics

immigrants from Europe whose language and other customs differed from theirs.

ethnicity

refer to cultural characteristics, refer to people who identify with one another based on common ancestry and cultural heritage. may center on region or nation of origin

genocide

the attempt to destroy a group of people because of their premed race or ethnicity

forced assimilation

the dominant group refuses to allow the minority to practice its religion or speak its language, etc.

rising expectations

the expectation that sweeping legal changes would usher in better conditions of life.

pan-Indianism

emphasis on common elements that run through indian cultures.

WASPs

White Anglo Saxon Protestants, held deep prejudices against other whites.

Race

a group of people with inherited physical characteristics that distinguish it from another group.

permissible assimilation

allows the minority to adopt the dominant group's patterns in its own way and at its own speed.

multiculturalism

also called pluralism, permits or even encourages racial-ethnic variation. The minority groups are able to maintain their separate identities, yet participate freely in the country' social institutions, from educations to politics.

Discrimination

an action of unfair treatment

prejudice

an attitude that is pre-judging, usually in a negative way.

reserve labor force

another term for the unemployed, are employed at times of economic boom but laid off during times of economic contraction

population transfer

direct and indirect ways of doing this, basically moving a minority group out of the majority group.

selective perception

lead us to see certain things while they blind us to others.

authoritarian personality

people believe that things are either right or wrong.

minority group

people who are singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

dominant group

the group that has greater power and prestige.

assimilation

the process by which a minority group is absorbed into the dominant group.

segregation

the separation of racial or ethnic groups.

ethnic work

the way we construct our ethnicity.

internal colonialism

to describe how a country's dominant group manipulates the social institutions to suppress minorities for its economic advantage.

compartmentalize

to separate their acts of cruelty from their sense of being good and decent people.

direct transfer

type of population transfer where a dominant group expels the minority.


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