Note Taking Guide Race 2 Days
1) Race vs. Ethnicity
Race: a category of people who share ____________________________________________________________
Ethnicity: a shared cultural ________________________________and/or_______________________________
2) Race is a social construct
Caucasian, African-American, Asian, Native American, Pacific Islander, these categories are _______________________
__________________________________________________________________.
Race is a ___________________________________________. This means that race is not a scientific fact.
Scientifically we are all a part of the same race-____________________________________
Although people commonly think of races as sharply distinguishable and fixed biological entities, their boundaries are in
fact set by ________________________________________________
Criteria we use to distinguish race are _________________________________________
3) In what year did the U.S. census allow Americans to mark more than once race?
4) Prejudice and Discrimination
Stereotypes: A ____________________________________________________________________________ about the
members of a group
Hinder social interactions, _____________________________________________________ about others
Prejudice- refers to _________________________ (Fear, anger, strong dislike, hatred, other negative emotions towards
a group)
Discrimination – refers to ___________________________________________s (Unequal treatment based on group
membership )
Racism – refers to discriminatory beliefs or actions ________________________________________________________
Reverse Discriminationspecific form of discrimination ________________________________________________________________________
or majority group
Modern RacismA ___________________________form of racism that involves the
belief that serious discrimination in America _________________________________________
belief that racial inequality is the ________________________________________________________ group members
5) Types of Discrimination: Individual
any behavior on the ____________________________________________________________________________ which
leads to ______________________________________________________ on the basis of race or other factors
Example:
6) Types of Discrimination: Institutional
Any _______________________________________________________________________ within a social institution
that ____________________________________________________ one group
____________________________________ that result in unequal treatment or
____________________________________________________________________ for minorities
May be _____________________________________or subtle and perhaps ______________________________
Example:
7) Sources of prejudice and discrimination
1. Cultural transmission theory:
focuses on how prejudice is transmitted through culture from ______________________________________________
child learns prejudice in the same manner he or she learns how to ___________________________________________
building blocks for prejudice are contained with a society’s culture and transmitted naturally to the child through home
and community in the form of:
_____________________________________________
____________________________________________-this refers to the _____________________________________
members of one group would allow or desire with members of another group.
2. Group identification theory:
focuses on how prejudices are tied in with an individual’s racial and ethnic ____________________________________
human groups are drawn together through common interests, develop a view of themselves as
___________________________________ and tend to _____________________________________________________
A person’s __________________________________________________________ by either accepting an exaggerated
view of the value of their own group, or by downgrading the value or importance of another group.
In other words, pride in one’s group may become __________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
3. Personality theories
Assert that those with _________________________________________ have higher __________________________of
holding prejudice beliefs.
Authoritarian personality:
 rigidly ___________________________
 uncritical of authority within their group
 preoccupied with _____________________________
 _______________________________________________
 raised by excessively ________________________________________________ and disciplinarian adults
have a highly antidemocratic view of the world which can lead to________________________ views of other groups
4. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Ethnic prejudices develop in ______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________ in their daily lives.
Ethnic groups provide ________________________________________ for hostility and frustration people
experience
8) Robert Merton’s Typology of Racism and Discrimination
a. All weather liberal: unprejudiced non-discriminator. Someone who:
b. Fair weather liberal: unprejudiced discriminator (if in a setting where others discriminate may also
discriminate)Someone who:
c. Timid bigot: prejudice non-discriminator. Someone who:
d. All weather bigot: prejudice discriminator. Someone who:
9) How did the concept of race begin?