Soc 134 exam UW-Madison EXAM(Answered;graded A+)

Southern strategy - Strategy by Republican party candidates of gaining political support in the southern US by consciously appealing to white Democrats' racial resentments in order to gain votes. In the 80s, it was anti drug rhetoric Law and order rhetoric - The demand for a stricter criminal justice system (ie longer terms of imprisonment, mandatory sentencing, 3 strikes laws, capital punishment) Used by Nixon and Wallace Welfare queen - Women accused of collecting excessive welfare payments through fraud/manipulation (ie many names/addresses/SS #) Bill Clinton - Crime Bill of 1994, tougher on crime, more prisons, but less racially targeted Round up (CJS) - Step 1. Through WOD and police Formal control and conviction - Step 2. Denied meaningful representation, pressured to plead guilty. Invisible punishment - Step 3. Never integrated back to mainstream; white society; legally discriminated; denied employment, housing, education etc neighborhood - geographically localized community within a larger city, town or suburb; often social communities with considerable face to face interaction among members census tracts - small, relatively stable geographic areas that usually have a population between 2,500-8,000. Located in census metropolis' with population 50,000+ The Great Migration - Massive movement of blacks from rural South to urban North. Escaping Jim Crow and racial terrorism, and spurred by job shortages in south, and job vacancies in the north. Several million people.Ghetto - a part of the city that is exclusively inhabited by members of one racial/ethnic group. Origins: many nonwhites denied loans Advanced marginality - Redlining - the practice of denying mortgage loans for homes to nonwhite residents of poor inner city neighborhoods. Financial institutions would literally draw a red line around neighborhoods Racially restrictive covenants - Contractual agreements between homeowners that prohibited purchase and sale by African Americans White flight and its causes - Moved out to suburbs in 1950s. This increased with deindustrialization and Civil rights movement Fair Housing Act - 1968. Prohibited discrimination in sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, etc Chicago Open House movement - Led by MLK and others, many demands including open housing and other basic equities Index of dissimilarity - a measure of segregation between two groups, with 0 being total integration, 100 being total segregation. Doesn't mean equal proportions, but equally spread out. Index of isolation - Measure of tendency for members of one group to live in neighborhoods where their share of the population is above the citywide average Food desert - Large geographic area where mainstream grocery stores are scarce or missing Booker T Washington - Atlanta Compromise, industrial education should develop better trained laborersWEB Dubois - NAACP, equal education, "talented tenth". Opposed Atlanta Compromise Atlanta Compromise - 1895. Agreement between BTWashington/other black leaders and southern white leaders. Southern blacks would work and submit to white rule while whites made sure blacks received basic education. Blacks would not agitate for equality, integration, justice