Race and Ethnicity

• Concepts and definitions:

  • race, ethnicity, minority group,
  • racism
  • authoritarian personality
  • genocide
  • stereotype, prejudice
  • pluralism, assimilation
  • institutional discrimination
  • scapegoat
  • xenophobia

• Brown vs. Board of Education

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Please be familiar with these concepts. The text begins this chapter with a discussion of Brown v. Board of Education.

Genocide is defined as the deliberate systematic annihilation of an entire category of people or nation. Ethnic cleansing involves the removal (often by murder) of a group of people from a particular geographic area such as the situation in Bosnia and Kosovo.