Deck 3: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Which group is expected to become a statistical minority by the year 2043?

A) Hispanic Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) non-Hispanic white Americans
D) Black Americans

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Social scientists reject the biological notions of race, instead favoring an approach that treats race as a(n) ______.

A) need
B) imperative
C) construct
D) drive

Answer 2

C

Question 3

As of 2002, ______ were the nation's largest minority group.

A) white Americans
B) Hispanic Americans
C) African Americans
D) Asian Americans

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which continent receives the largest number of international immigrants?

A) North America
B) Asia
C) Africa
D) Europe

Question 5

The federal definition of ethnicity is based on guidelines of the ______.

A) U.S. Congress
B) President's National Security Council
C) U.S. Supreme Court
D) Office of Management and Budget

Question 6

The belief that one's own group values and behaviors are not only right, but also superior to others is called ______.

A) narcissism
B) prejudice
C) discrimination
D) ethnocentrism

Question 7

Laws that required segregation of Blacks and whites in public facilities, schools, and transportation were known as ______.

A) the Johnson-Reed Act
B) the Brown v Board of Education ruling
C) the Civil Rights Act
D) Jim Crow laws

Question 8

The practice of prohibiting or restricting the entry or participation of groups into society is known as ______.

A) segregation
B) colonialism
C) exclusion
D) expulsion

Question 9

The Trail of Tears is an example of ______.

A) emigration
B) immigration
C) exclusion
D) expulsion

Question 10

Which of the following groups in America have not experienced expulsion or exclusion?

A) black people
B) white people
C) Chinese people
D) Native American peoples

Question 11

The United States today can be said to ______ along color lines.

A) be completely integrated
B) be intensely segregated
C) compete
D) build

Question 12

From the late 19th century through the mid-1940s the United States regarded immigration ______.

A) negatively
B) positively
C) neutrally
D) as an important way to increase pluralism

Question 13

Which sociological perspective views assimilation as the solution to the differences between racial and ethnic groups?

A) functionalist
B) feminist
C) interactionist
D) conflict

Question 14

Which sociological perspective is most likely to point to how ethnocentrism and racism maintain social inequality?

A) multiculturalist
B) interactionist
C) functionalist
D) conflict

Question 15

Which sociological perspective focuses on how the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations divides groups while maintaining a dominant group?

A) feminist
B) interactionist
C) functionalist
D) conflict

Question 16

The belief in the inferiority of certain racial groups, which is often accompanied by discrimination, is called ______.

A) ethnocentrism
B) individual discrimination
C) institutional discrimination
D) racism

Question 17

______ is prevalent in Switzerland.

A) Pluralism
B) Assimilation
C) Ethnocentrism
D) Segregation

Question 18

Feminist theory intersects with ______ through its analysis of multiple systems of oppression, such as race, class, sexual orientation, nation of origin, language, culture, and ethnicity.

A) racialization
B) multiculturalism
C) pluralism
D) ethnic attrition

Question 19

______ is a new racial category.

A) Racialization
B) Multiracial
C) Pluralistic
D) Ethnic attrition

Question 20

Amitra is an immigrant who has entered the U.S. without documentation. The U.N. would consider her to be which of these types of immigrants?

A) front door
B) side door
C) back door
D) window

Question 21

According to a national survey of racial disparities in health, most Americans attribute racial differences in poor health outcomes to which of these factors?

A) race
B) poor choices
C) social conditions
D) biology

Question 22

Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?

A) the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education
B) the economic segregation of schools
C) the illegalization of interracial marriage
D) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Question 23

Which individual is considered a 1.5 generation immigrant?

A) Li Mei, a 25-year-old engineer whose mother immigrated to the United States before Li Mei was born
B) Sujata, a 46-year-old physician's assistant who immigrated to the United States with her husband ten years ago
C) Zahra, a 15-year-old girl who identifies as a multiracial U.S. citizen
D) Sofia, a 9-year-old student at Pinewood Elementary whose parents immigrated to the United States last year to find work

Question 24

Which racial/ethnic group experienced the greatest loss in wealth between 2007-2016 in the United States?

A) Hispanics
B) Native Americans
C) non-Hispanic whites
D) African Americans

Question 25

One of the primary means to accumulate wealth, ______, is also a primary mechanism of inequality between blacks and whites in the United States.

A) education
B) home ownership
C) access to health insurance
D) access to health services

Question 26

Which statement is NOT true of affirmative action?

A) Affirmative action has attempted to improve minority access to educational opportunities.
B) Affirmative action policies are controversial.
C) Affirmative action only benefits African Americans.
D) Affirmative action has attempted to improve minority access to occupational opportunity.

Question 27

Schools with high enrollments are associated with which of these factors?

A) bigger budgets
B) higher dropout rates
C) higher teacher-to-student ratios
D) all of these

Question 28

Based on Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights act, affirmative action programs in colleges and universities have been applied to which of these?

A) student curriculum
B) student fraternities and sororities
C) student room assignments
D) student financial aid

Question 29

As of 2014, ______ states have outlawed the use of affirmative action in public schools.

A) 0
B) 10
C) 25
D) 50

Question 30

Compared to 35 years ago, black and Hispanic students are today ______ at the nation's top colleges and universities.

A) significantly more overrepresented
B) more overrepresented
C) more underrepresented
D) significantly more underrepresented

Question 31

Emigration from Mexico to the United States has ______ since 2007.

A) increased dramatically
B) increased by a small percentage
C) stayed constant
D) decreased

Question 32

In 2016, ______ unauthorized immigrants were in the United States.

A) 5.5 million
B) 11.3 million
C) 25 million
D) 100 million

Question 33

All of the following are components of effective workplace diversity training programs EXCEPT ______.

A) familiarizing employees with antidiscrimination laws
B) increasing cultural awareness among employees
C) calling out past poor behaviour of managers and staff
D) making managers aware of how their biases affect their actions

Question 34

Which of the following is/are effective way(s) to reduce discrimination and bias in schools?

A) increase cultural competency of staff and faculty
B) house minority students and white students separately
C) mentor white students about race
D) discontinue affirmative action programs

Question 35

The Association of American Colleges and Universities reported ______ in the number of college classes requiring diversity classes between 1990 and 2000.

A) a decrease of more than 50 percent
B) a decrease between 10 and 20 percent
C) an increase of more than 50 percent
D) an increase between 10 and 20 percent

Question 36

The U.S. Census distinguishes between native and foreign-born residents.

Question 37

By 2060, researchers estimate that the majority of Americans will come from a combination of racial groups.

Question 38

In 2013, there were 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States.

Question 39

Most of foreign-born people in the United States come from Asia.

Question 40

According to functionalists, assimilation can never lead to social equilibrium.

Question 41

Conflict theorists believe that assimilation is the best way to end racism.

Question 42

According to the interactionist perspective, we learn about racial and ethnic categories through our social interactions.

Question 43

Black feminists focus primarily on how gender and racial oppression combine to create inequality.

Question 44

Because of affirmative action and other social programs, most African Americans now earn the same as white Americans.

Question 45

The recently arrived immigrant population is much less educated than those who arrived to the U.S. 50 years ago.

Question 46

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals allows those who have lived in the United States for at least five years without a felony, serious misdemeanor, or three less serious misdemeanors to work legally and obtain a driver's license.

Question 47

U.S. immigration policy is basically the same as it was when the Immigration Service was established in the late 19th century.

Question 48

Hispanic students are more likely than black and white students to attend high schools with large enrolments.

Question 49

According to Byrd and Clayton (2002), America's health system is predicated on the belief that poor individuals do not deserve decent health.

Question 50

Define race and explain how it differs from ethnicity.

Question 51

Compare and contrast individual discrimination and institutional discrimination and give an example of each type.

Question 52

Describe Black Lives Matter and explain which sociological perspective it is most closely aligned with and why.

Question 53

Identify and describe one historical event that slowed the flow of immigrants to the United States during the 20th century.

Question 54

Explain the patterns of emigration from Mexico since 2007 and identify at least three reasons for these patterns.