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| The belief that humans are subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as superior or inferior. |
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| Rigidly held, unfavorable attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about members of a different group based on a social characteristics such as race, ethnicity or gender. |
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| Category of people labeled and treated as similar because of allegedly common biological traits, such as skin color, texture of hair, and shape of eyes. |
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| Overgeneralized belief that a certain trait, behavior, or attitude characterizes all members of some identifiable group. |
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| Tendency for the race of a society's majority to be so obvious, normative, and unremarkable that it becomes, for all intent and purpose, invisible. |
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| Form of racism expressed subtly and indirectl through feelings of discomfort, uneasiness, and fear, which motiates avoidance rather than blatant discrimination. |
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| Individual expression of racist attitudes or behaviors |
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| General terms applied to diverse subgroups that are assumed to have something in common. |
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| Laws, customs, and practices that systematically reflect and produce racial and ethnic inequalities in a society, whether or not the individuals maintaining these laws, customs, and practices have racist intentions. |
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| Sense of community derived from the cultural heritage shared by a category of people with common anscestry. |
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| Unfair treatment of people based on some social characteristic, such as race, ethnicity or sex. |
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| Skin color prejudice within an ethnoracial group, most notably between light skinned and dark skinned Blacks. |
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| Programs designed to seek ou members of minority groups for positions from which they had been previously excluded, thereby seeking to overcome institutional racism. |
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