Stereotype threat: A concern experienced when one feels at risk of confirming the inferiority or negative characteristics of ones group.
Prejudice: a preconceived judgement or opinion of other people and races that leads to preferring one kind of person over another.
Redlining: the practice of arbitrarily denying, limiting, or charging more for financial services, insurance, or access to healthcare to specific neighborhoods, based on racial and economic issues.
Microaggressions: Words and deeds that negatively impact marginalized individuals, groups, or communities.
Institutional racism: Societal patterns that produce negative treatment against groups of people based on their race.
Racial colorblindness: the idea that ignoring or overlooking racial and ethnic differences promotes racial harmony.
Pluralism: Maintaining social equality and distinct cultural characteristics within and among races and ethnicities.
Assimilation: the process in which minority groups lose their distinct cultural characteristics and are absorbed into the dominant group.
Patterns experienced by Korean immigrants:
Traditionalists: high degree of ethnic consciousness, live in Korean enclaves, and speak only Korean
Integrationists: detached from the Korean community and attempt to live as White Americans.
Isolationists: Unable to live as Korean or American in the US and return to Korea.
Pluralists: limited social assimilation, preferring to identify as Korean and American.
Affirmative action: policies designed to promote educational and job opportunities for minorities and women.
De facto segregation: segregation that happens by fact and not by requirement.
In 2020, the life expectancy of white people lowered by 8/10 years, while that of black people lowered by 3 years.
Model/ideal minority group: An ethnic group that is more academically , economically, and socially successful than other racial minority groups. An example is Asians in America.
Internal colonialism: the exploitation of a minority group by the dominant group in the society.
Apartheid: policies, regulations, and laws implemented by a government to keep racial and ethnic groups separate.
Split-labor market: A byproduct of the capitalist system that splits workers along racial and ethnic lines to weaken worker solidarity.
Amalgamation: the creation of a new group due to the combination of a minority and a majority group.
Contact hypothesis by Gordon Allport: The idea that prejudice decreases when two groups of equal status come into contact.