Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Note card 1

Racism

Work cited

Gerzina, Gretchen. "Racism." Encyclopedia Americana. 2008. Grolier Online. 28 Sep. 2008 http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0327115-00. John carroll

  • Racism is a belief that physical characteristics such as skin color, ethnicity, or religion affect how a person acts or will act.
  • Two broader terms and subcaterogories are racial profiling, hate crimes, individual racism, and institutional racism.
  • Individual racism is the belief that a racial group is not as good as you are. This the racism that you here about most often.
  • Institutional racism is when systems such as a government contribute to racist results.
  • Some examples of institutional racism is when people in the system show a preference to a worker, not because of skill, but because of religion, or ethnicity or skin color.

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