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Who is what? - correct answer autochthonous vs migrant for first 100 years, autochthonous people were natives and migrants were settlers gets messy when slavery gets involved switch between who is autochthonous -Irish, Italians were considered migrants and not are autochthonous -connected to whiteness What is race - correct answer "a concept which signifies and symbolizes racial conflicts and interests by referrin...

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OMI Racers Connect Program (RCP) - correct answer To enhance the educational process of ESI members through academic and socio-cultural support 1) To enhance academic persistence through attitudinal and behavioral modifications. 2) To encourage faculty/student interaction. 3) A. To maximize students' awareness and participation with other University resources 4) A. To increase ESI students' participation in shaping the campus intellectual clim...

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Individual Racism - correct answer When one discriminates against another based on race. Example: Black employees hear racist slurs and comments in the workplace. Individual racism causes high levels of stress in blacks causing health issues. Racial Microaggressions - correct answer daily, commonplace insults and racial slights that can accumulate to affect the well being of minorities psychologically. Example: Asian A...

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Discuss two aspects of the racial formation theory (Omi and Winant). Use examples to illustrate your answer. What role does the racial state play in racial formations? - correct answer The racial formation theory made by Omi and Winant states that race is a social construction that changes over time due to historical and social pressures. The role of race is embedded in all US institutions and it is a powerful force driving categorization, separation, and pol...

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According to Bonilla-Silva, which of the four frames of colorblind racism is the most important? - correct answer Abstract liberalism Which of the following describes the way the frames of colorblind racism are used? - correct answer They are used in combination with each other What is an example of the rhetoric that is used with the naturalization frame? - correct answer Claiming...

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What is the most common definition of power used in sociology? [Ch.3 Structures of Social Life] - correct answer the ability to control events, resources, and people in spite of opposition. "both within and among societies today, patterns of social inequality are major features of how social systems work... At the heart of these patterns is the distribution of..." [Ch. 3 Structures of Social life] - correct answer pow...

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What is Race? - correct answer Omi: Race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. (NOT essence/fixed OR ideological only) Racial formation - correct answer the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed Omi argues that racial formation is - correct answer ...

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According to Omi, what is the main component characterizing the production of popular music? - correct answer racial segregation and exclusion According to Omi, what is the justification for excluding blacks from managerial positions in professional sports? - correct answer biological "difference" How does Omi label institutional forms of discrimination that keep racial minorities out of the production and organ...

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race - correct answer OMI AND WINANT (RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES) - a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies - selection of features for the purposes of racial signification is a social and historical process (therefore not a biological basis like that of gender) --> using physical features as a category to differentiate among human groups along racial lines = "i...

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What is Race, according to Omi and Winant? - correct answer Race is a concept, a representation or signification of identity that refers to different types of human bodies, the perceived corporeal and phenotypic markers of difference and the meanings and social practices that are ascribed to these differences - has played an unique role in the formation and historical development of the United States What is ethnicity? - correct answer ...

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Who were the authors and their readings? - correct answer Omi and Winant's (2015) "Racial Formation in the United States" and Cornell and Hartmann (1998), "Ethnicity and Race" Why and how did slavery in the U.S. destroy the ethnic identities of African peoples and replace them with an overarching racial identity? (Cornell and Hartmann) - correct answer African Americans were forcefully taken from their countries an...

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Polarisation-What happens to the colour of the torch light in milky water? - correct answer Turns yellow/orange Particles inside the milky water cause light scattering Shorter wavelengths (blue) leave the light source first and scatter into the milk Longer wavelengths remain in the light source and pass through Polarisation-Why does torch light appear more yellow as we add more milk? - correct answer More milk =...

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Race - correct answer Race: - a concept which signifies social conflicts and interests by referring to different bodies - race is a very social classification that is used to enforce hierarchies and social orders Essence: - something fixed, concrete, and objective - see race as based in biology Problems: - has been used to justify inequality based on "racial inferiority" - slavery - holocaust - race isn't purely biological - racial cat...

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racial formation - correct answer The "sociohistorical process by which racial identities are created, lived out, transformed, and destroyed" is the definition of which of the following concepts from the Omi & Winant reading? racialization - correct answer The process of assigning racial meaning to physical characteristics such as hair type, skin color, nose shape, etc. is an example of what Omi & Winant call ________...

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Definition of Racial Formation Theory - correct answer Racial formation theory focuses on the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed, and the authors treat the concept of race as a middle ground b/w extreme social construction and a rigid, fixed biological definition. Omi and Winant argue that extreme social constructionism, embraced by both right-wing and left-wing ideologues, leads to an und...

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Racial formation can be defined as - correct answer The process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed According to Omi and Winant, what "work" does a racial project do? - correct answer A racial project connects what race means in a particular system and the ways the social structure and everyday experiences are racially organized Under what conditions can a racial project be...

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According to Michael Omi and Howard Winant, in what ways has state law "quantified racial identity"? (pp. 11-13) - correct answer In 1982-83, Susie Guillory Phipps unsuccessfully sued the Louisiana Bureau of VitalRecords to change her racial classification from black to white. The descendant of aneighteenth-century white planter and a black slave, Phipps was designated "black" in herbirth certificate in accordance with a 1970 state law which declared anyo...

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Sociological Theories of Racism - correct answer Sociological explanations for how racial inequality is created and reproduced Individual Racism - correct answer When one person discriminates against another on the basis of race or ethnicity Racial Microagression - correct answer Daily, commonplace insults and racial slights that cumulatively affect the psychological well-being of...

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______ is payment based on WHAT is done to/with the patient ______ pays in whole or part for the OUTCOME generated, not what was used to generate the outcome - correct answer Fee For Service (FFS)--> provider centric Value-Based Purchasing (VBP)--> pt centric _______ is becoming the gold standard in relation to PT outcomes What other ways are the degree of health or recovery measured? - correct answer ...

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racial formation - correct answer the sociohistorical process by which racial identities are created, lived out, transformed, and destroyed race - correct answer a concept that signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies racialization - correct answer the extension of racial meaning to a previously racially unclassified r...

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