Mexicans in cities like Los Angeles and San Antonio end up living in segregated, high-poverty communities in which institutions, such as schools, have inferior resources and foster low expectations of their students; this situation may facilitate the categorization of Mexicans as a race. This process of categorization is known as .

The correct answer is racism

Racism is the name of discrimination and prejudice (directly or indirectly) against individuals or groups because of their ethnicity or color. It is important to note that prejudice is a form of concept or judgment formulated without any prior knowledge of the subject matter, while discrimination is the act of separating, excluding or differentiating people or objects.

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