This document discusses concepts related to race and ethnicity including:
1) Race has historically been defined along genetic, legal, and social lines, but the social definition is most important in interactions.
2) Terms like multiracial, interracial, and ethnic groups are defined.
3) Minorities are groups singled out for unequal treatment, and prejudice involves negative attitudes while discrimination involves unequal actions.
4) Racial and ethnic relations can involve assimilation, pluralism, subjugation, segregation, expulsion, or annihilation of groups.
This document was adopted from the Resource Center Team within the Office of Diversity & Inclusion of Amherst College as a guide to common, shared language around identity.
This project emerged out of a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language in order to foster opportunities for community building and effective communication within and across difference.
This is a list of carefully researched and thoughtfully discussed definitions for key diversity and inclusion terms. It is by no means a comprehensive list, but it is a good place for us to start. We understand that language around identity, privilege, oppression and inclusion is always changing, evolving and expanding.
If there is a term that you feel should be included here, or possibly redefined, please let us know. You can email The Office of Equity & Inclusion (OSEI), at osei@georgetown.edu.
This document was adopted from the Resource Center Team within the Office of Diversity & Inclusion of Amherst College as a guide to common, shared language around identity.
This project emerged out of a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language in order to foster opportunities for community building and effective communication within and across difference.
This is a list of carefully researched and thoughtfully discussed definitions for key diversity and inclusion terms. It is by no means a comprehensive list, but it is a good place for us to start. We understand that language around identity, privilege, oppression and inclusion is always changing, evolving and expanding.
If there is a term that you feel should be included here, or possibly redefined, please let us know. You can email The Office of Equity & Inclusion (OSEI), at osei@georgetown.edu.
A powerpoint presentation about Social and Political Stratification. Includes the following: Social Desirables, Social Mobility and its types, Factors responsible for Social Mobility, and Social Inequality and its kinds.
Collectivistic cultures emphasize the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and wishes of each individual.
In this cultures under mentioned play a central role in each person's identity.
relationships with other members of the group and
the interconnectedness between people
Cultures in Asia, Central America, South America and Africa tend to be more collectivistic.
A few common traits of collectivistic cultures include:
Social rules focus on
promoting selflessness and
putting the community needs ahead of individual needs
Working as a group and supporting others is essential
People are encouraged to do what's best for society
Families and communities have a central role
In collectivistic cultures, people are considered "good" if they are
generous,
helpful,
dependable, and
attentive to the needs of others.
A powerpoint presentation about Social and Political Stratification. Includes the following: Social Desirables, Social Mobility and its types, Factors responsible for Social Mobility, and Social Inequality and its kinds.
Collectivistic cultures emphasize the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and wishes of each individual.
In this cultures under mentioned play a central role in each person's identity.
relationships with other members of the group and
the interconnectedness between people
Cultures in Asia, Central America, South America and Africa tend to be more collectivistic.
A few common traits of collectivistic cultures include:
Social rules focus on
promoting selflessness and
putting the community needs ahead of individual needs
Working as a group and supporting others is essential
People are encouraged to do what's best for society
Families and communities have a central role
In collectivistic cultures, people are considered "good" if they are
generous,
helpful,
dependable, and
attentive to the needs of others.
Because there was a lot of dense material in this mini-lecture, I presented it as a SlideShare to make it visually more appealing and to break up the information a little.
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Chapter 4Understanding Racism, Prejudice, and White Privilege4-WilheminaRossi174
Chapter: 4
Understanding Racism, Prejudice, and White Privilege4-1Defining and Contextualizing Racism
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Hoyt Jr. (2012) defines racism as “a particular form of prejudice defined by preconceived erroneous beliefs about race and members of racial groups.” It is supported simultaneously by individuals, the institutional practices of society, and dominant cultural values and norms. Racism is a universal phenomenon that exists across cultures and tends to emerge wherever ethnic diversity and perceived or real differences in group characteristics become part of a struggle for social power. In the case of the United States, African Americans, Latinos/as, Native Americans, and Asian Americans—groups that we have been referring to as people of color—have been systematically subordinated by the white majority.
There are four important points to be made initially about racism:
· Prejudice and racism are not the same thing. Prejudice is a negative, inaccurate, rigid, and unfair way of thinking about members of another group. All human beings hold prejudices. This is true for people of color, as well as for majority group members. But there is a crucial difference between the prejudices held by whites and those held by people of color. whites have more power to enact their prejudices and therefore negatively impact the lives of people of color than vice versa. The term racism is used in relation to the racial attitudes and behavior of majority group members. Similar attitudes and behaviors on the part of people of color are referred to as prejudice and discrimination (a term commonly used to mean actions taken on the basis of one’s prejudices). Another way of describing this relationship is that prejudice plus power equals racism.
· Racism is a broad and all-pervasive social phenomenon that is mutually reinforced at all levels of society.
· Institutional racism involves the manipulation of societal institutions to give preferences and advantages to whites and at the same time restrict the choices, rights, mobility, and access of people of color.
· Cultural racism is the belief that the cultural ways of one group are superior to those of another. Cultural racism can be found both in individuals and in institutions. In the former, it is often referred to as ethnocentrism. Jones (2000) mentioned that historical insults, societal norms, unearned privilege, and structural barriers are all aspects of institutional racism.
· People tend to deny, rationalize, and avoid discussing their feelings and beliefs about race and ethnicity. Often, these feelings remain unconscious and are brought to awareness only with great difficulty.
· When young children hear the stories of people of color, they tend to feel deeply and sincerely with the storyteller. “I’m really sorry that you had to go through that” is the most common reaction of a child. By the time one reaches adulthood, however, the empathy is often gone. Instead, reactions tend to involve minimizing, justifying ...
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Nationality is the identity that is tied to being part of a nation or country and who inhabits a particular territory delineated by a political border and controlled by a government.
Complex Identities and Intersectionality Unit Three.docxdonnajames55
Complex Identities and Intersectionality
Unit Three
Learning Objectives
Be able to define race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation.
Understand the theoretical concepts of “intersectionality”, “social location” , & “standpoint”.
Have a clear understanding of the ways in which oppressions are not “additive” but rather “multiples”
Be able to describe your own power/privileges
Know how stereotypes work in American society, including the ways in which they are perpetuated and some of their repercussions
Understand that everyone is vulnerable to their influence
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PART ONE:
What are race, class, and sexuality?
Understanding: Race
RACE: is social constructed category that divides people into groups based on visible physical characteristics such as skin color, eye shape, hair texture, etc.
Although race is related to the physical body, the meaning we give these superficial differences between us are entirely socially constructed. There are NO actual genetic differences between the various races.
Because race categories are socially constructed, they change over time. Which categories we measure, and how we measure them, shifts.
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Understanding: Ethnicity
Ethnicity: is a socially constructed category, a way of grouping people based on their shared culture, such as religion, language, and history.
The difference between “race” and “ethnicity” can be confusing. For example, “Asian American” is treated as a race, but “Chinese American” and “Japanese American” are treated as ethnicities because they have distinct languages and traditions.
In the United States, there is a great deal of pressure on ethnic minority groups to assimilate the norms, values, and characteristics of the majority ethnic group.
Race and Ethnicity in America
Different racial groups are just that– different. Even thought we often speak in terms of binaries (“minorities” verses “the majority”), it is important to realize that not all minority race and/or ethnic groups share the same characteristics, both between themselves and within themselves.
White Americans: white is a race!
Hispanic Americans
African Americans
Native Indigenous Americans
Asian Americans
Arab Americans
Multiracial
Racial and Ethnic Inequality
A commonality among those which are considered minority groups is the experience of inequality.
Inequalities are socially structured and thus can impact multiple aspects of an individual’s life– not just, for example, their ability to get a job.
Racism: the belief that the physical and cultural characteristics associated with a group of people are inferior and thus unequal treatment of the group and its members is justified.
Racism can occur at both the individual and institutional level.
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Race Impacts Life Chances in a Multitude of Ways
The process of Maintaining Inequality
A stereotype is developed and is circulated throughout a society via cultural channels such as popular media .
In a world of growing diversity and the need to interact with those who may be "different" from us, the issue of "otherness" has become more prevalent.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2. HISTORIC CONCEPT OF RACE
Race
A category of people who are defined as
similar because of a number of physical
characteristics.
3. HISTORIC CONCEPT OF RACE
Throughout history, races have been
defined along
Genetic Lines - No association
Legal Lines - Power based
Social Lines - Group membership
Can you identify any problems associated
with these means of definition?
4. SOCIAL DEFINITION
If a person presents themselves as a
member of a certain race and others
respond to that person as a member of
that race, then it makes little sense to say
that they are not a member of that race.
5. SOCIAL DEFINITION
The social definition of race is the decisive
one in most social interactions. It pays
little attention to an individual’s hereditary
physical features.
No different than ethnic self definition
of people with a similar culture
6. TERMS USING RACE
Multiracial Ancestry
Children who are born to parents of multiple races-
representing more than one race. Ancestors comes from
more than one race
Example - White/Asian
Interracial Marriage
Marriage between two people of differing racial groups.
Example - Black/White
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7. ETHNIC GROUPS
Ethnic group
DEF: Has a distinct cultural tradition that its
own members identify with and that may or may
not be recognized by others.
Its members may be scattered throughout
existing countries or live in a narrow
geographical area.
Most of them form sub-cultures in a society
8. ETHNIC GROUPS
May or may not have their own separate
political unit (state, political party, etc)
They may have had one in the past or
aspire to have one in the future
They usually have high internal loyalty and
often possess distinctive folkways
9. THE CONCEPT OF MINORITY
Not defined as a small group in Sociology
DEF: A group of people who, because of
physical or cultural characteristics, are singled
out from others in society for differential and
unequal treatment, and who therefore regard
themselves as objects of discrimination.
- RACE, ETHNICITY, RELIGION, AGE,
GENDER,
10. PREJUDICE
Prejudice means a “prejudgment” or
“an attitude with an emotional
component
DEF: prejudice as an irrationally based
negative attitude toward certain groups
and their members
(Prejudice can be positive also).
11. FUNCTIONS OF PREJUDICE
First, a prejudice, because it is shared, helps
draw together those who hold it.
Second, when two or more groups are
competing prejudice can make it easier on the
conscience if one can write off competitors as
somehow less than human or inherently
unworthy.
Third, psychologists suggest that prejudice
allows us to project onto others parts of
ourselves that we do not like, creating a feeling
of superiority
12. DYSFUNCTIONS OF PREJUDICE
It does not provide a true picture of the social
world.
It can lead to discrimination, but does not always
do so.
It can prevent society, for optimizing potential
human resources
13. DISCRIMINATION
Prejudice is a subjective feeling, discrimination
is an overt action.
DEF: Discrimination refers to differential
treatment, usually unequal and injurious,
accorded to individuals who are assumed to
belong to a particular category or group.
14. MERTON’S TYPOLOGY
Unprejudiced Nondiscriminators
People are neither prejudiced against the
members of other racial and ethnic groups, nor
do they practice discrimination.
Unprejudiced Discriminators
Are not themselves prejudiced, but will tolerate
discrimantion. Includes those who constantly
think of expediency.
15. MERTON’S TYPOLOGY
Prejudiced Nondiscriminators
People who hold negative views of other groups
and who do not accept the ideal of equality for
all, but conform to it and give it lip service when
the slightest pressure is applied.
Prejudiced Discriminators
The bigots, pure and unashamed. Individual’s
who are prejudiced and voice and/or practice
discrimination
16. Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination
Refer to social arrangements that restrict the life
chances and choices of a specifically defined
group in comparison with those of the dominant
group.
17. Patterns of Racial and Ethnic
Relations
There are a limited number of possible
outcomes when different groups come
together
Assimilation
Is the process whereby groups with
different cultures come to have a common
culture.
Refers to the fusion of cultural heritages.
18. ASSIMILATION
Integration of new elements with old ones. It is
usually tilted towards the group with more power
The transferring of culture from one group to
another is a highly complex process, often
involving the rejection of old ideologies, habits,
customs, attitudes, and language.
Anglo conformity refers to The renunciation of the
ancestral cultures in favor of Anglo-American
behavior and values
19. PLURALISM
The development and coexistence of separate
racial and ethnic group identities within a society
Is a philosophical viewpoint that attempts to
produce what is considered to be a desirable
social situation.
20. PLURALISM
Theory
Celebrates the differences among groups of
people.
Provided a means for minorities to resist the pull
of assimilation by allowing them to claim that
they constitute the very structure of the social
order.
Assumes that the minority is a primary unit of
society and that the unity of the whole depends
on the harmony of the various parts.
21. SUBJUGATION
The subordination of one group and the
assumption of a position of authority,
power, and domination by the other.
22. SEGREGATION
Segregation, a form of subjugation, refers to the
act, process, or state of being set apart.
It places limits and restrictions on the contact,
communication, and social relations among
groups.
23. EXPULSION
The process of forcing a group to leave the
territory in which it lives.
Can be accomplished through forced
migration.
The relocation of a group through direct action
EX: AMERICAN INDIANS/TRAIL OF TEARS
24. ANNIHILATION
The deliberate extermination of a racial or ethnic
group.
EX: Nazi Germany killing of Jews and
Gypsys
Editor's Notes
No genetic evidence associated with physical trait groupings normally recognized Legal - mostly based on who is not white? Differential treatment Social - Those who self define themselves as a race.