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Race and Ethnicity - Coggle Diagram
Race and Ethnicity
Racial Disparities
Redlining: Refusal of loans or insurance to those living in low income neighborhoods, often minority groups
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segregation
This link gives an example of how segregation is used as social control. It provides in-depth background on racial residential segregation--a measure of segregation in today's society.
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Social Construct
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It is a social construction because it is a collection of tales we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and we eventually believe and act on them.
A race is defined by sociologists as a group of individuals who share a set of features (typically physical qualities) that society considers to be socially meaningful.
The sociological relevance of belonging to a specific racial or ethnic group is that society may treat group members differently, assessing or favoring or punishing them depending on membership and perceived connection.
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Social Agents
ethnicity
refers to group features such as national origins, languages, cultural and religious customs. Despite the fact that ethnicity can be founded on cultural self-identification,
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minorities
Less powerful groups who are dominated by more powerful group and often discriminated against on the basis of characteristics
lynching
From 1882 to 1968, 4,743 occurred in the US
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White Americans used lynching to terrorize and oppress Black people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This website can help you understand more about the terrible practice's history.
genocide
Signatories to the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide are obligated to act against genocide.
Genocide is the result of deliberate decisions taken by individuals who stand to gain from it and who expect to incur few expenses as a result of their actions.
The mass, systematic destruction of a people or a nation.
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