PSY 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Adequate Yearly Progress, Jim Crow Laws, Nordic Race

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Chapter 2: Ethnicity and Race/ Vocabulary Words
Acculturation: Adoption of the dominant group’s cultural patterns by a new or
oppressed group.
Acting white: Taking on the behaviors, values, and attitudes of the dominant white
culture when the individual is not a member of a European group.
Adequate yearly progress (AYP): A minimum level of improvement—measurable in
terms of student performance—that school districts and schools must achieve within
specific timeframes specified in the federal law No Child Left Behind.
Afrocentric curriculum: Curriculum centered on or derived from Africa.
Asylees: Individuals who travel to the United States from another country and ask for
asylum or protection from being persecuted in their native country.
Civil rights: The rights of personal liberty guaranteed by the 13th and 14th
Amendments to the U.S. —Constitution and by acts of Congress.
Color blindness: Claim that one does not see a person’s race and treats everyone
equally regardless of race.
De facto segregation: Separation of people by race that occurs by the choice of the
people involved.
De jure segregation: State-mandated separation of people by race.
Endogamy: Marriage within the same ethnic, cultural, or religious group.
Ethnic group: Membership based on one’s national origin or the national origin of
one’s ancestors when they immigrated to the United States.
Indigenous: Population that is native to a country or region. In the United States,
Native Americans, Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives are indigenous populations.
Jim Crow laws: Legal restrictions on persons of color sharing public accommodations
with whites.
Miscegenation: Marriage between people of different races.
Multiethnic curriculum: Curriculum that incorporates accurate and positive
information about the history, experiences, contributions, and perspectives of the
ethnic groups that comprise the U.S. population.
Nativism: Policy favoring assimilated ethnic groups in a country over immigrants.
Nordic race: Germanic people of northern Europe who are white with a tall stature,
long head, light skin and hair, and blue eyes.
Refugees: Persons recognized by the U.S. government as being persecuted or
legitimately bearing persecution in their home country because of race, religion,
nationality, or membership in a specific social or political group.
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Acculturation: adoption of the dominant group"s cultural patterns by a new or oppressed group. Acting white: taking on the behaviors, values, and attitudes of the dominant white culture when the individual is not a member of a european group. Adequate yearly progress (ayp): a minimum level of improvement measurable in terms of student performance that school districts and schools must achieve within specific timeframes specified in the federal law no child left behind. Afrocentric curriculum: curriculum centered on or derived from africa. Asylees: individuals who travel to the united states from another country and ask for asylum or protection from being persecuted in their native country. Civil rights: the rights of personal liberty guaranteed by the 13th and 14th. Amendments to the u. s. constitution and by acts of congress. Color blindness: claim that one does not see a person"s race and treats everyone equally regardless of race.

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