racial minorities
Underrepresented ethnic populations
Racial minorities are groups within a society whose race or ethnicity differs from the dominant or majority population.
The term describes relative position rather than absolute numbers—in some regions, groups called minorities may actually outnumber the dominant group.
Racial minorities remain underrepresented in corporate leadership.
The phrase appears frequently in discussions of discrimination, civil rights, and demographic policy.
- ethnic heritageAncestral cultural background
- people of colorNon-white racial groups
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- intersectionalityInterconnected identity-based discrimination study
- double consciousnessAwareness of conflicting identities
voting rights · voter suppression · colonialism · color line · grassroots organizing · marginalization · hate crimes · affirmative action · equal opportunity · slavery · indigenous identity · multiculturalism · forced migration · allyship · code switching · media representation · glass ceiling · segregation
- Persecuted GroupsJews, Romani, Roma, Armenians, Rohingya
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
racial minoritiesethnic majority
Largest ancestry group present
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