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Race
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Socially constructed category composed of people who share biologically transmitted traits that members of a society consider important.
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Ethnicity
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Shared cultural heritage.
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Minority
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Any category of people distinguished by physical or cultural difference that a society sets apart as subordinates.
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Prejudice
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A rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people. Thought NOT action.
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Stereotypes
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Exaggerated descriptions applied to every person in some category.
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Racism
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Belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another.
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Discrimination
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Treating various categories of people unequally. Taking action.
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Institutional Prejudice and Discrimination
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Bias built into the operation of society's institutions.
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Pluralism
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State in which people of all races and ethnicities are distinct but have equal social standing.
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Assimilation
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The process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture.
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Miscegenation
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Biological reproduction by partners of different racial categories.
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Segregation
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The physical and social separation of categories of people.
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Genocide
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The systematic killing of one category of people by another.
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Scapegoat
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A person or category of people, typically with little power, whom people unfairly blame for their own troubles.
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Thomas Theorum
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If we define things as real they are real in consequences.
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