1. Race & Ethnicity

2. “Scientific” racial types are misleading
No society contains biologically “pure” people
All racial categories are genetically very much alike
Skin color of Caucasian people ranges from very light to very dark

3. Race & Ethnicity
Race = biologically transmitted traits
Ethnicity = culture
Can be changed (E.g. Russian to American)

4. Geographical theory of race
Physical differences - e.g. skin color relates to temperature and other geographical conditions

5. Characteristics of minorities
Distinctive physical or cultural traits
Socially disadvantaged

6. Prejudice vs discrimination
Prejudice = attitudes
Discrimination = behavior
Institutional discrimination
Bias built into the operation of today’s institutions

7. Stereotypes
Exaggerated descriptions applied to everyone in some category

8. Theories of prejudice
Scapegoat theory
Cultural theory

9. Scapegoat theory
Links prejudice to frustration and disadvantaged status
Unfairly blame others for their troubles

10. Cultural theory of prejudice
Emory Borgardus (research on social distance)
Prejudice expressed by people well adjusted to a “culture of prejudice”.

11. Majority & minority: Patterns of interaction
Pluralism - Social parity
Assimilation
Adoption of the English
Segregation - separation
Genocide
Annihilation of one category

12. Today’s immigrants
Asia
Latin America

13. Xenophobia
Fear of what is strange