Deck 3: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered non-Hispanic White?

A)25
B)32
C)50
D)62

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Robert Park's "race relations cycle" theory is most closely associated with which of the following schools of thought?

A)structural functionalism
B)conflict theory
C)symbolic interactionism
D)feminist theory

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Foreign-born people who are raised in the United States from childhood are known as ______.

A)first-generation immigrants
B)the 1.5 generation
C)second-generation immigrants
D)ethnic immigrants

Answer 3

B

Question 4

One in ______ children of immigrants in the United States lives in poverty.

A)3
B)6
C)10
D)15

Question 5

Mary considers herself to be Black and Jamaican.Most social scientists would say that Black is her ______ and Jamaican is her ______.

A)race;ethnicity
B)ethnicity;race
C)ethnicity;culture
D)both describe race

Question 6

Patrick is a White American who typically only thinks about his Irish ethnicity on St.Patrick's Day.Patrick's Irish ethnicity is largely ______.

A)symbolic
B)achieved
C)institutional
D)color blind

Question 7

Which best describes the misunderstanding that when a small number of individuals from a minority group become successful in a society,racism no longer exists in that society?

A)tokenistic fallacy
B)institutional discrimination
C)symbolic racism
D)internalized racism

Question 8

Symbolic ethnicity ______.

A)is typically more important than racial identity
B)is highly correlated with racial identity
C)is passed down directly from parent to child
D)derives more from heritage of distant relatives

Question 9

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered Native American?

A)1
B)5
C)12
D)20

Question 10

Which is a form of racism in the criminal justice system that results not only from the way the court system is structured but also from the way policing works?

A)symbolic racism
B)institutional racism
C)manifest racism
D)internalized racism

Question 11

______ is a system of racialized segregation that existed in the United States from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865 to the landmark civil rights legislation of the late 1960s.

A)Symbolic racism
B)Institutional racism
C)Jim Crow
D)Internalized racism

Question 12

Which of the following most accurately describes the process by which the dominant race in society is shielded from the most toxic/harmful environmental threats,while minority groups are exposed to various health risks/hazards?

A)institutional discrimination
B)assimilation
C)environmental racism
D)internalized racism

Question 13

Whites are a numerical minority in all of the following states EXCEPT ______.

A)Illinois
B)Texas
C)Hawaii
D)New Mexico

Question 14

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered Black?

A)3
B)8
C)13
D)22

Question 15

Economists Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan found that even when resumes are otherwise identical,those with White-sounding names got callbacks one in ______ times,while the Black-sounding "applicants" got only one in ______.

A)5;6
B)5;10
C)10;15
D)10;30

Question 16

Which of the following increases a person's likelihood of being unemployed,having lower income and net worth,and spending time in prison?

A)belonging to a racial minority
B)assimilation
C)symbolic racism
D)internalized racism

Question 17

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered Hispanic?

A)6
B)18
C)26
D)36

Question 18

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered Asian American?

A)1
B)6
C)12
D)20

Question 19

Between 2009 and 2011,the most common country of origin for persons obtaining naturalized U.S.citizenship was ______.

A)Canada
B)England
C)Mexico
D)Brazil

Question 20

______ racism is a form of racism in which people of color buy into racist ideology that characterizes their own group as inferior.

A)Symbolic
B)Institutional
C)Manifest
D)Internalized

Question 21

What portion of ex-felons are African American?

A)55%
B)43%
C)36%
D)40%

Question 22

______ is the ideology that acknowledges immigrant assimilation into different segments of the host society (not just the White middle class).

A)Discrimination theory
B)Racialization theory
C)Segmented assimilation
D)Bumpy-line assimilation

Question 23

Which most accurately describes DuBois's concept of the psychological wage?

A)how certain minority groups act as a buffer when they are elevated in status
B)physical and psychic separation between the dominant/majority group and subordinate/minority groups
C)White capitalists make White workers feel superior to non-Whites to mask the reality that they do not earn much more than the non-White workers
D)cultural adaptation of minorities

Question 24

______ is the prediction that the more intergroup contact Whites have with members of racial/ethnic minority groups,the less likely they are to be prejudiced.

A)Discrimination hypothesis
B)Racialization theory
C)Contact hypothesis
D)Conflict theory

Question 25

A racial group that is not in the majority but is held up by the majority as a "positive" example of a minority can be defined as a ______.

A)White privilege minority
B)segmented minority
C)middleman minority
D)veil

Question 26

The feminization of poverty can be attributed to which of the following?

A)stereotypes among African Americans
B)cultural racism
C)African American men's joblessness
D)color blind racism

Question 27

Symbolic interactionist theorists are interested in which of the following?

A)how messaging from close friends and the mass media influences how individuals relate and respond to racial inequality
B)the physical and psychic separation between the dominant/majority group and subordinate/minority groups
C)the cultural adaptation of minorities
D)adjusting institutional practices that have historically benefited Whites so others can have greater access to society's benefits

Question 28

Which perspective suggests the need for more equal-status interracial contact with open dialogue about race and racism?

A)contact hypothesis
B)symbolic interactionist theory
C)conflict theory
D)structural functionalism theory

Question 29

Which of the following is the world's oldest civil rights organization?

A)Black Lives Matter
B)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
C)National Immigrant Solidarity Network (NISN)D.American Association for the Advancement of Minorities

Question 30

In what year was The Philadelphia Negro first published?

A)1995
B)1900
C)1897
D)1899

Question 31

______ is the modification of early 20th-century assimilation theory that challenges the traditional linear one-way progression.

A)Discrimination theory
B)Racialization theory
C)Segmented assimilation
D)Bumpy-line assimilation

Question 32

Conflict theorists are mainly focused on which of the following?

A)the better training or cultural adaptation of minorities
B)the physical and psychic separation between the dominant/majority group and subordinate/minority groups
C)the cultural adaptation of minorities
D)changing institutional actions that have historically advantaged Whites so others can have more equal access to society's benefits

Question 33

______ is an individual's use of his or her own personal sphere of influence to affect social change.

A)Antiracism
B)Internalized racism
C)Micropolitics
D)Open dialogue

Question 34

The positive impact of interracial contact is increasingly negatively affected by which of the following?

A)antiracism
B)internalized racism
C)color blind racism
D)open dialogue

Question 35

Which best describes the physical and psychic separation between the dominant/majority group and subordinate/minority groups?

A)White privilege
B)segmented assimilation
C)psychological wage
D)the veil

Question 36

______ is the ideology that suggests that Blacks possess a dual understanding of themselves as fully capable human beings as well as the majority group's perception of them.

A)White privilege
B)Segmented minority
C)Middleman minority
D)Double consciousness

Question 37

To combat internalized racism and media biases,consumers might do which of the following?

A)continue to support the portrayals of people of color in the media
B)reduce public dialogue about race and racism
C)send a message to media executives by exercising their buying power
D)advocate for antiracist educational settings

Question 38

Which best describes the tendency of individuals to perform better or worse on tests depending on what they have been told about their group's abilities?

A)discrimination hypothesis
B)racialization theory
C)contact hypothesis
D)stereotype threat

Question 39

Which of the following is a type of racism that avoids overt arguments of biological superiority/inferiority?

A)antiracism
B)cultural racism
C)internalized racism
D)color blind racism

Question 40

Which of the following describes the widespread unemployment of African Americans due to deindustrialization?

A)costs of privilege
B)cultural racism
C)spatial mismatch theory
D)color blind racism

Question 41

The U.S.Census considers Hispanic origin to be a race,not an ethnicity.

Question 42

Sociologist Devah Pager found a White male with a criminal record was more likely to get a callback than a Black male without a criminal record.

Question 43

Describe the general functional perspective on poverty and inequality.Then discuss three potential functions poverty can serve for a society.Finally,what is one important criticism of the functional perspective on poverty?

Question 44

Discuss the myth of the model minority.What minority group does this ideology pertain to? What types of stigma,discrimination,and prejudice do they face,and how is the stress from these incidents managed?

Question 45

Blacks are the largest minority group in the United States.

Question 46

Racial inequalities are conditioned not only by gender but also by social class.

Question 47

What does it mean to say race is a social construction? Give two examples of how the social construction of race has varied across cultures or time periods.If race is a social construction,does this mean race is meaningless? Why or why not?

Question 48

Black can be both a race and an ethnicity.

Question 49

What is the tokenistic fallacy? Provide an example to illustrate your answer.Describe two pieces of evidence that contradict the tokenistic fallacy.

Question 50

Discuss symbolic interactionist theory in terms of racial inequality.Be sure to include references to the contact hypothesis,stereotype threat,costs of privilege,and microaggressions in your response.

Question 51

There are no criminal penalties for racial discrimination.

Question 52

Women are considered a minority group.

Question 53

There is no difference in the average income of Black and White males once education is taken into account.

Question 54

Asians and Hispanics are the fastest growing minority groups in the United States.

Question 55

Most social scientists believe race is a social construction.