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Racialization | the formation of a new racial identity in which new ideological boundaries of difference are drawn around a formerly unnotices group of people. |
Eugenics | Science of genetic lines and the inheritable traits they pass on from generation to generation |
Bred into populations | for positive traits |
Bred out of populations | for negative traits |
Social Darwinism | Notion that some groups or races evolved more thatn others and were better fit to survive and even rule other races. |
Ethnocentrism | the judgement of other groups by one's own standards and values |
Racism | the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal human traits |
Race is imposed | usually based on physical differences, hierarchial, exclusive, and unequal |
Ethnicity is | voluntary, self-defined, nonhierarchical, fluid, cultural, and not so closely linked with power differences |
An ethnic identity becomes racialized when it is | subsumed under a force label, racial marker or otherness |
Symbolic ethnicity | is ethnicity that is individualistic in nature and without real social cost for the individual |
Pluralism | refers to the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society, with no one group being in the majority |
Segregation | the legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity |
Segregation is illegal and is still | evident in schools, housing, and prisons |
Prejudice | refers to negative thoughts and feelings about an ethnic or racial group. |