1. Ethnic Studies Vocabulary

2. Race: a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.
Social (?)
Scientific (?)
an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, especially formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics, ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture: Her parents wanted her to marry within her race.
Race and Ethnicity Defined. The term race refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant, meaning that people treat other people differently because of them. ... Racism, then, is prejudice based on socially significant physical features

3. Ethnicity:
an ethnic group; a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like

4. Stereotyping:
an idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look on the outside, which may be untrue or only partly true. 
Stereotyping people is a type of prejudice because what is on the outside is a small part of who a person is.
a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group:The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes.

6. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason
Prejudice

7. Discrimination
distinguishing differences between things or treating someone as inferior based on their race, sex, national origin, age or other characteristics.

8. Racism:
Racism is a belief that one race is superior to the other or the practice of treating a person or group of people differently on the basis of their race.
An example of racism is believing that Caucasians are superior to African Americans.

9. Ethnocentrism
The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture

11. Acculturation:
cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture

12. to become like others, or help another person to adapt to a new environment
Assimilation:

14. Anti-Semitism:
hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group.

15. Xenophobia
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

16. Nativism
a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
2 : the revival or perpetuation of an indigenous culture especially in opposition to acculturation.