| A | B |
|---|
| assimilation | the process of being absorbed into the mainstream culture (220) |
| authoritarian personality | Theodor Adorno’s term for people who are prejudiced and rank high on scales of conformity, intolerance, insecurity, respect for authority, and submissiveness to superiors (216) |
| Chicanos | Latinos whose country or origin is Mexico (226) |
| compartmentalize | to separate acts from feelings or attitudes (219) |
| discrimination | an act of unfair treatment directed against an individual or a group (211) |
| dominant group | the group with the most power, greatest privileges, and highest social status (209) |
| ethnic cleansing | a policy of population elimination, including forcible expulsion and genocide (219) |
| ethnicity (and ethnic) | having distinctive cultural characteristics (209) |
| genocide | the systematic annihilation or attempted annihilation of a race or ethnic group (217) |
| individual discrimination | the negative treatment of one person by another on the basis of that person’s perceived characteristics (213) |
| institutional discrimination | negative treatment of a minority group that is built into a society’s institutions (214) |
| internal colonialism | the systematic economic exploitation of a minority group (220) |
| melting pot | the idea that Americans of various backgrounds would melt (or merge), leaving behind their distinctive previous ethnic identities and forming a new ethnic group (211) |
| minority group | people who are singled out for unequal treatment on the basis of their physical and cultural characteristics, and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination (209) |
| multiculturalism (also called pluralism) | a policy that permits or encourages groups to express their individual, unique racial and ethnic identities (220) |
| population transfer | involuntary movement of a minority group (219) |
| prejudice | an attitude or prejudging, usually in a negative way 211) |
| race | inherited physical characteristics that distinguish one group from another (206) |
| racism | prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race (211) |
| rising expectations | the sense that better conditions are soon to follow, which, if unfulfilled, creates mounting frustration (223) |
| scapegoat | an individual or group unfairly blamed for someone else’s troubles (215) |
| segregation | the policy of keeping racial or ethnic groups apart (220) |
| split-labor market | a term used by conflict theorists for the practice of weakening the bargaining power of workers by splitting them along racial, ethnic, sex, age, or any other lines(221) |
| WASP | a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant; narrowly, an American of English descent; broadly, an American of western European ancestry (221) |
| white ethnics | white immigrants to the United States whose culture differs from that of WASPs (221) |
