Unit 3:Race and Ethnicity Vocab Review

The denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership.

• Discrimination

• Assimilation

• Prejudice

• Racism

Discrimination upheld by the law. (Example Jim Crow)

• Stereotype

• Self-fulfilling Prophecy

• Racism

• Legal Discrimination

The belief that one's own race or ethnic group is naturally superior to other races or ethnic groups.

• Stereotype

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

The practice of placing the blame for one's troubles on an innocent individual or group.

• Assimilation

• Genocide

• Scapegoating

• Subjugation

Allows each group within society to keep its unique cultural identity.

• Cultural Pluralism

• Subjugation

• Assimilation

• Genocide

Policies that physically separate a minority group from the dominant group.

• Scapegoating

• Assimilation

• Genocide

• Segregation

Some dominant groups combined population transfer and extermination in a practiced called?

• Assimilation

• Ethnic Cleansing

• Genocide

• Scapegoating

Discrimination and prejudice against Jews.

• White Ethnics

• Anti-Semitism

• Environmental racism

• WASPs

People who are usually upper class and of the British descent.

• WASP's

• Minority Group

• Ethnic Group

• Dominant Group

A category of people who share observable physical characteristics and whom others see being a distinct group.

• Ethnicity

• Minority Group

• Dominant Group

• Race