Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 9

Outline

• Race and Ethnicity

• The Consequences of Racial and Ethnic Classification

• Racist Ideologies and Discrimination

• Social Identity and Stigma

Race and Ethnicity

• The concepts of race (種族） and ethnicity（族群）

• Systems of racial and ethnic classification

• The problem with racial or ethnic categories

• Chance, context （脈絡） , and choice

1. American Indian or Alaskan Native

2. Asian

3. Black

4. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

5. White

6. Other Race

6 Official Racial Categories (USA)

The consequences of Racial and Ethnic Classification• Minority Groups

• Assimilation (同化）– Absorption Assimilation (吸收式同化）– Melting Pot Assimilation（熔爐式同化）

Racist Ideologies and Discrimination• Ideology (意識型態）

• Prejudice(偏見）• Stereotype(刻板印象）• Selective perception

Discrimination

• Relation between prejudice and discrimination (Robert K. Merton)

• Individual Discrimination

• Institutional Discrimination

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Social Identity and Stigma

• Stigma (污名）

• Mixed contact (Goffman)– Patterns of contact– Responses to stigmatization