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Define race
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A population of people who are believed to be naturally or biologically distinct from other populations
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When does race exhist
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Only when people use a classification system that divides all human beings into distinct categories
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Define ethnicity
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A cultural heritage that people use to identify a particular population
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Is ethnicity based on genetics or biology
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No
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What is ethnicity based on
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Cultural traditions and history
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Define ethnic population
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A category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share a way of life, collective history, and sense of themselves as a people
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Define minority
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Socially identified population that suffers disadvantages due to systematic discrimination and has a strong sense of social togetherness based on shared experiences of past and current discrimination
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Who developed a classification system to distinguish populations they encountered
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Europeans
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How did Euroopeans use the word race
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Very loosely to refer to people with particular religous beliefs, languages or ethnic traditions, histories, national origins, and social statuses
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Faulty scientific analyses w/ observations and anecdotal stories led to the development of what
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Racial ideologies
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Define racial ideology
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A web of ideas and beliefs that people use to give meaning to skin color and evaluate people in terms of racial classifications
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What assumption were the racial classification models developed in Europe based on
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That the appearence/actions of white Europeans was normal and all deviations were strange, exotic, primitive, or immoral
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What were the 3 reasons the racial ideology about colored people became popular in the eightenth and ninetenth centuries
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- used during westward expansion to justify killing, capturing, and confining indians to reservations
- after abolition of slavery, used to justify new laws restricting negroes and enforcing racial segregation in public places (Jim Crow Laws) - scientists at prestigous universities published research on superiority of whites and natural inferiority of blacks |
