POSC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: United Farm Workers, League Of United Latin American Citizens, Arizona Sb 1070
21 Mar 2017
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Civil rights are the protection against unequal treatment that the government guarantees to all groups. Race: a social constructed classification of people based on their physical characteristic, especially skin color. Ethnicity: classification is based on national origin or culture. People of different ethnicities are often the same race. Gender: refers to social classifications based on sex. Inequality is when one group enjoys more political, social, or economic benefits than another group. Inequality of opportunity: a kind of inequality in which laws or official action deny specific groups social political, or economic benefits that are available to other groups. Ex. when black people had to take literacy tests to vote. Inequality of outcome: a form of inequality in which social and demographic forces not official laws or policies cause one group to enjoy more political, social, or economic benefits than another group. Segregation: a physical separation of a dominant group from a subordinate group.
