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3.4: Key Terms and Concepts for Part II

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    Suggested Key Terms and Concepts for Part II—Race and Ethnicity

    “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line”

    “You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught”

    Apartheid

    Ascribed master status

    Assimilation

    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Categorical ideas

    Civil Rights Act

    Cognitive dissonance

    Consequences of racism

    Cultural assimilation

    De facto discrimination

    De jure discrimination…

    Direct personal discrimination

    Discrimination

    Discrimination is a behavior

    Dominant group

    Dred Scott Decision

    Dworkin and Dworkin

    Erving Goffman

    Essential characteristics of groups

    Ethnicity

    Ethnocentrism

    Ethnophaulisms

    Expulsion

    Fair Housing Act

    First generation Americans

    Genocide

    Gordon W. Allport

    Hispanics/Latinos

    Immigrants

    Immigration

    Immigration Act

    Indirect institutional discrimination

    Japanese-American relocation

    Jim Crow laws

    Korematsu Decision

    Laws of association

    Literacy tests

    Majority status is unmarked or unstigmatized

    Mccarran-Walter Act

    Mental categories

    Minority group

    Minority status

    Minority-Majority

    Patterns of primary and secondary structural assimilation

    Plessy v. Ferguson

    Pogroms

    Poll taxes

    Power

    Prejudice

    Primary structural assimilation

    Race

    Racism

    Robert Merton’s Typology of Bigotry (Prejudice and Discrimination)

    Rosenblum and Travis

    Second generation Americans

    Secondary structural assimilation

    Social construct

    Species

    Stereotypes

    Stigmatized

    Structural discrimination

    Third generation Americans

    Thomas’s Theorem

    Traditional American assimilation pattern

    Trail of Tears

    Tribal stigma

    Voting Rights Act

    W.E.B. DuBois

    White ethnics


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