front 1 race | back 1 a flawed system of classification with no biological basis that uses certain physical characteristics to divide the human population not supposedly discrete groups |
front 2 racism | back 2 individual thoughts and actions and institutional patterns and policies that create unequal access to power, resources, and opportunities bases on imagined differences among groups |
front 3 genotype | back 3 the inherited genetics factors that provide the framework for an organisms physical form |
front 4 phenotype | back 4 the way genes are expressed in an organism physical form as a result of genotype interaction with environmental factors |
front 5 colonialism | back 5 the practice by which a nation-state extend political, economic, and military power beyond its own boarder over an extended period of time to secure access to raw material, cheap labor, and markets in other countries or regions |
front 6 miscegenation | back 6 a demeaning historical term for interracial marriage |
front 7 white supremacy | back 7 the belief that whites are biologically different and superior to people of other races |
front 8 whiteness | back 8 a culturally constructed concept origionating in 1691 Virginia designed to establish a clear boundaries of who is white and who is not; stratification |
front 9 Jim Crow Laws | back 9 laws implemented after the U.S. Civil War to legally inform segregation, particularly in the South after the end of slavery |
front 10 hypodescent | back 10 sometimes called "one drop of blood" rule; assignment of children of racially "mixed' unions to subordinate group |
front 11 nativism | back 11 favoring certain long term inhabitant over new immigrants |
front 12 eugenics | back 12 a pseudoscience attempting to scientifically prove the existence of separate human races to improve the population's genetics |
front 13 racialization | back 13 the categorize, differentiate, and attribute a particular racial character to a person or group of people |
front 14 individual racism | back 14 personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race |
front 15 institutionalized racism | back 15 patters by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems |
front 16 racial ideology | back 16 a set of popular ideas about race that allows the discriminatory behavior of individuals and institutions to seem reasonable, rational, and normal |