Segregation
. The legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity.
Segregation
is the physical and social separation of the races. An example would be Jim Crow Laws which divided people by their race like in restaurants where people of a different race had to sit in the back (the African Americans).
What is the term for legal separation of races?
Racial segregation
is the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crime against humanity under the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
What is separation of groups of people?
segregation
, separation of groups of people with differing characteristics, often taken to connote a condition of inequality.
What is segregation in sociology?
Segregation refers to
the degree to which social groups are spatially
, and, by implication, socially separated from one another. Related to this concept is an interest in the extent to which people in an area have similar social characteristics.
When did segregation end in the US?
The Civil Rights Act of
1964
superseded all state and local laws requiring segregation.
What is an example of segregation?
Segregation is the act of separating, especially when applied to separating people by race. An example of segregation is when
African American and Caucasian children were made to attend different schools
. The act or process of segregating or the condition of being segregated.
What are the 5 races?
OMB requires that race data be collectd for a minimum of five groups:
White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
.
How many races are there?
The world population can be divided into
4 major races
, namely white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid. This is based on a racial classification made by Carleton S. Coon in 1962.
What makes up someone’s race?
Race is defined as “
a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits
.” The term ethnicities is more broadly defined as “large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.”
What is a segregationist mean?
:
a person who believes in or practices segregation especially of races
(see race entry 1 sense 1a)
What called segregation?
Segregation is
the separation of an individual or group of individuals from a larger group
. It sometimes happens to apply special treatment to the separated individual or group. Segregation can also involve the separation of items from a larger group.
What year did segregation start?
The first steps toward official segregation came in the form of “Black Codes.” These were laws passed throughout the South starting around
1865
, that dictated most aspects of Black peoples’ lives, including where they could work and live.
What is the goal of segregation?
Segregation happens when a country or a society views one race as better than another. The goal of segregation is
to keep the “inferior” race away from the “better” race
. Because one race is seen as “inferior,” people of that race are not treated well.
What is the cause of residential segregation?
Current trends in racial and income based residential segregation in the United States are attributed to several factors, including:
Exclusionary zoning practices
.
Location of public housing
.
Discriminatory homeownership practices
.
What are the effects of residential segregation?
The effects of residential segregation are often stark: blacks and Hispanics who live in highly segregated and isolated neighborhoods have
lower housing quality, higher concentrations of poverty
, and less access to good jobs and education.
