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Prejudice
an opinion or feeling arising from a tendency to make assumptions about people based on a singular characteristic, such as race, sex, or religion, without any other basis
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Stereotypes
implicit bias about how a person’s race, gender, class, or sexual orientation influences the individual’s behavior that become strong beliefs that influence individual or collective behavior
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Racial Profiling
the use of racial or ethnic stereotype to determine who may or may not potentially be a criminal based on social and cultural assumptions of a groups’ criminality
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Ethnocentrism
viewpoint that the group an individual belongs to is superior to all other racial/ethnic groups
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Discrimination
treating of another based solely on that person’s membership in a particular racial group
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Institutional Discrimination
occurs when opportunities and equal right have been denied to individuals or groups through the norms and rules by which society and institutions function
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Minority Group
groups with less power who are targeted for oppression by the dominant group that wields power and societal control over institutions and societal norms.
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Racism
systematic, oppressive treatment based on racial group membership and the beliefs, behaviors, institutional organizations, or attitudes that favor one group over another
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Race as a Social Construct
not physical or biological, meaning changes with society, change revolves around need for one group to maintain economic and social power
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Social Institutions
structures that are well established and make up society
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Ideology
shared belief that holds power and justifies oppression
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Structural Inequality
framework within a society where built-in inequalities validate the oppression of certain groups of people while privileging others
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Oppression
the use of power to in an unjust or harmful way that keeps whole groups of people from gaining economic, educational, and social advancement
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Controlling images
stereotype that has become so ingrained in thought that it becomes a means to control those who are stereotyped and justifies the beliefs of those doing the stereotyping
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Internalized Oppression
belief system that causes people within racial groups to subconsciously believe the distorted messages about racial groups, including their own
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Systems of oppression
patterns of relationships that are used to discriminate against people
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Race
constructed idea rather than a physical or biological fact, the definition is imposed by others and cannot be changed by the individual
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Ethnicity
refers to members of a group that is recognized by the members of the group and is based on social or cultural characteristic rather than just physical characteristics
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Hate Groups
groups that take radical measures to discriminate against non-white groups, resorting to violence
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Micro-discrimination
discrimination occurring when an individual performs a discriminatory act against another individual or group of individuals
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Macro-discrimination
discrimination is a systematic through excluding different groups from receiving equal treatment and opportunities in the larger society
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Structural Racism
when policies, practices, and cultural norms act in ways that perpetuate racial inequality
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Dominant Group
people in a society who control social, economic, and political power
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Systematic Racism
way to organize society based on inequality between races that is perpetuated by institutional structures, such as the justice and educational systems that favor one race over another through advantages, privileges, and head starts
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Racialization
process of extending racial meanings to a relationship, social practice, or group that had not been previously associated with race
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Subordinate Group
people in a society who have little control of social, economic, and political power
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Assimilation
the process that involves a group gradually blending into the dominant culture
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Eugenics
practice of selective breeding to “improve” the racial quality of future generations, no mixing races
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