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Transfer of population by emigration
(leaving a country to settle in another).
Immigration (coming to a country) may be voluntary
(such as Japanese Americans and other Asian
Americans) or it may be involuntary (such
as African
Americans through slavery).
Immigrations can occur within a country such as
the Great Black Immigration from the South to the
North. |
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The incorporation or attachment of land that is
contiguous to the nation; can result from war
(such as Mexican
Americans in Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo) or purchase such as
(Native
Americans and Eskimos in Alaska). With
annexation, the dominant power generally attempts
to suppress the language and culture of the
minority groups. |
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The maintenance of political, social, economic,
and cultural domination over people by a foreign
power for an extended period. Such as (Native
Americans in the United States and Native
Hawaiians). Even to day Puerto Rico continues
to be a colony. Colonialism is usually
external but can also be internal. |
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| Consequence of Minority Group
Status |
Elimination of a people; includes genocide or the
deliberate, systematic killing of an entire ;
Describes White policies toward
Native Americans; in 1850 Indian population
was 600,00 by 1850 it was 250,000. |
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A dominant group may force a specific minority
group to leave a certain area or even vacate a
country; For example, the Us government drove
virtually all Native
Americans out of their tribal lands on to
reservations. |
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A group secedes to form a new nation or moves to
an already establish nation where it becomes
dominant; The
American Colonization Society> sought to form a
new nation for African
Americans in Liberia,
some proposals also advanced establishing
settlements in the western United States. |
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The physical separation of two groups in
residence, workplace and social functions.
Segregation can be legally imposed as it was under
Jim
Crow laws, or as Native
Americans on reservation or it can be de facto
as significant residential, social and educational
segregation of Hispanic/Latino
Americans and African
Americans. |
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Result when a minority and a majority group
combine to form a new group.
Fusion does not require intermarriage, but it is
similar to amalgamation or the cultural and
physical synthesis of various groups into a new
people; Only modest evidence of fusion in
the United States, although there is a push by multiracial
people to have a separate legal identity from
either the minority or majority groups.
(represented by:
Whites (A) + Blacks (B) +
Asian (C) = Interracial (D)) |
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Process by which a minority individual or groups
takes on the characteristics of the dominant
group. he process whereby individuals
or groups of differing ethnic heritage are
absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
Usually
they are immigrants or hitherto isolated
minorities who, through contact and participation
in the larger culture, gradually give up most
of their former culture traits and take on
the new traits to such a degree . . . Assimilation
is a majority ideology. (represented by:
Whites (A) + Blacks (B) +
Asian (C) = Whites (A)) |
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Process by which a majority and minority
individual or groups keep their separate identity.
(Represented by:
Whites (A) + Blacks (B) +
Asian (C) = Whites (A) + Blacks (B) +
Asian (C) |
