Deck 2: The Politics of Race

Question 1

The text lists three doctrines of racial superiority. Which of the following is NOT included as a doctrine?

A) scientific racism
B) eugenics
C) social Darwinism
D) racialization

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the text, the concept of race has no empirical validity. Rather, the race concept is properly seen as .

A) a biological construct
B) a physical construct
C) a scientific construct
D) a social construct

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to the text, which of the following is the only logical conclusion consistent with the survey results of the Kingston Police Services Study on racial profiling?

A) Young black males commit more crime
B) Young black males are more likely to be stopped by the police
C) The police engage in racial profiling of young black males.
D) Young white males are more stopped more frequently based on their proportion of the population.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the case study in whiteness, for purposes of analysis, whiteness should be interpreted as .

A) race
B) fiction
C) an empirical reality with measurable qualities
D) if it were a race

Question 5

According to the text, references to race must avoid dismissing it as purely fictional without falling into the trap of it as definitive category.

A) dismissing
B) defining
C) reifying
D) relativizing

Question 6

Which era is associated with a commitment to classify and explain the diversity of world's life forms into a single grand scheme?

A) The Enlightenment
B) The Age of Exploration
C) Colonialism
D) Imperialism

Question 7

What would you be called if you believed one could improve the quality of the human species by encouraging the ruling classes to reproduce while discouraging the poorer classes from having children?

A) A Social Darwinist
B) A Eugenicist
C) A Scientific Racist
D) A Racial Typographer

Question 8

What do we call the classification of human beings into a number of categories?

A) Race typology
B) Racialization
C) Race Relations
D) Race concept

Question 9

What do we call a breeding population whose members possess the capacity to reproduce fertile offspring?

A) Race
B) Phenotype
C) Genotype
D) Species

Question 10

What is the name of the theorem that explicitly says: "Phenomena do not have to be real to be real in their consequences"?

A) Marxism
B) Eugenics
C) Thomas
D) Scientific racism

Question 11

The process by which the same incident is interpreted in fundamentally different ways based on people's social location in society is known as

A) racialization
B) racial profiling
C) Rashomon effect
D) Collective redefinition

Question 12

The traditional race concept shared a number of key features. Which of the following features does NOT characterize the traditional concept of race?

A) Race is a social construct
B) The world can be divided into fixed groups
C) Racial groups possesses a distinctive set of physical and social characteristics
D) Racially distinct groups can be arranged in ascending and descending order

Question 13

According to the text, it is more accurate to say minorities rather than racial minorities.

A) essentialized
B) visibilized
C) ethnic
D) racialized

Question 14

What term describes the tendency to interpret reality from a white point of view as normal and necessary, while non white perspectives are dismissed as irrelevant or inferior?

A) Cultural relativism
B) Eurocentrism
C) Whiteness
D) Stacking

Question 15

The Human Genome Project in 2000 concluded what many had long suspected: Humans as a species share of their genetic material with each other.

A) 99.9 percent
B) 95.5 percent
C) 91.1 percent
D) 88.8 percent

Question 16

A widespread belief that race no longer matters because of all Canadians are equal before law, thanks to the elimination of legal discrimination is known as a society.

A) Racialized
B) Colour blind
C) Race conscious
D) Non racist

Question 17

What doctrine upheld the belief that races who were better adapted in the struggle for survival would progress up the evolutionary ladder?

A) Social Darwinism
B) Eugenics
C) Scientific Racism
D) Race typology

Question 18

What is the name for a population who's physical and genetic characteristics appear more frequently than in other populations, in part because of relative reproductive isolation?

A) Race
B) Species
C) Genotype
D) Phenotype

Question 19

What do we call the process when the focus of the race concept shifts from a 'thing' to that of a 'process' involving the power of some to impose labels on others?

A) liberal universalism
B) racialization
C) race typology
D) eugenics

Question 20

There is no such thing as race relations, only relationships that have been framed as racial by those with the power to do so. What do we call this defining process?

A) Race typology
B) Racial relations
C) Racialization
D) Social Darwinism

Question 21

According to the text, there is no such thing as race relations, only relationships that have been.

Question 22

What doctrine argued that the human race could be improved through selective reproduction?

Question 23

What is the name for the racial dogma associated with the testing of intelligence?

A) Stanford Binet test
B) The Bell Curve
C) Scientific Racism
D) IQ exam

Question 24

What percentage of genetic material accounts for human diversity according to the Human Genome Project? percent

Question 25

Which doctrine borrowed from Darwin's theory of natural selection and applied it to the human species to account for human differences?

Question 26

What is the name of the race-based dogma that was associated with the testing of intelligence by means of IQ tests?

Question 27

To how many species does the "human race" belong?

Question 28

According to a growing number of theorists, including David Theo Goldberg, the modern state is also a state.

A) Non racial
B) Pre racial
C) Racial
D) Race blind

Question 29

Race has no biological or scientific validity, but rather must be seen as a construct.

Question 30

When studying human variation, what do we call references to differences based on less visible attributes such as metabolic rates or blood types?

Question 31

A transformative shift in thinking about race is in progress. Race is no longer seen as a biological 'thing', but rather race as a socially constructed ' '.

Question 32

What is the name for the process in which social significance is attached to biological features; in turn, biological significance is imposed on social features?

Question 33

The concept that neither reality nor objective truth exists, but only discourses about truth and reality, with the result that people tend to see the world out there in fundamentally different ways depending on where they are socially located is known as the Effect.

Question 34

A breeding population whose members possess the capacity to reproduce fertile offspring is called a .

Question 35

What do sociologists call the idea that people's behaviour are defined, determined, and predicted by the group they belong to?

A) Eugenics
B) Racialization
C) Scientific Racism
D) Essentialism

Question 36

The saying that "phenomena do not have to be real to be real in their consequences" is best expressed in debates over

Question 37

Race may have once mattered in Canada; however, it no longer matters at present because of Canada's commitment to the principles and practices of a culture-blind society. (true or false).

Question 38

What is the term given to a population whose physical and genetic characteristics appear more frequently than in other populations?