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Race and society

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white trash
American English slur for poor white people, especially in the American South
missing white woman syndrome
phenomenon of extensive media coverage of missing white women
colonial mentality
internalized attitude of ethnic, national or cultural inferiority
ethnic stereotype
type of stereotypes
racialization
Racialization or ethnicization is a sociological concept used to describe the intent and processes by which ethnic or racial identities are systematically constructed within a society. Constructs for racialization are centered on erroneous generalizations about racial aspects of distinct groups, leading to the denial of equal societal engagement. It is a fallacy of groupism and a process of racial dominance that has lasting harmful or damaging outcomes for racialized groups. An associated term is self-racialization, which refers to the practice by dominant groups to justify and defend their do
visible minority
Canadian government notion of non-white people who are also not aboriginal
Black Horror on the Rhine
racial panic in interwar Germany
Circassian beauties
Circus attraction based on the trope of the fairness of Circassian women.
reproductive justice
social justice issue
transracial
identity of someone that identifies as a different race than the one associated with their biological ancestry
racial capitalism
marxist social and economic concept by Cedric J. Robinson
Post-racial America
theoretical environment in which the United States is free from racial preference, discrimination, and prejudice
color-blind casting
casting without considering the actors' ethnicity or skin-color
Poor White
United States social caste and ethnic group
race of the future
theoretical composite race which will result from ongoing racial admixture