ANTH 1003 : Final Study Guide
Document Summary
Institutional racism- patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems: sometimes called structural racism, these included education, health, housing, employment, the legal system, law enforcement, and the media. Origin myth- a story told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity. Ethnicity- a sense of historical, cultural, and sometimes ancestral connection to a group of people who are imagined to be distinct from those outside the group. Symbols of ethnic identity, performing identity, commodification of identity. Imagined community- the invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never meet: benedict anderson (1983) conceived of the nation as an imagined community. He called it imagined because almost all of the people within it have never and will never meet. The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or religious group.
