Quiz 6

A  They elevate their social status by proving they are not racist.

B  They are less likely to divorce because of deeper intimacies with their husbands.

C  They lose some racial privilege through their relationships with their husbands.

D  They are less likely to become mothers, because of their fears for their children.

A  Canada

B  Denmark

C  Sweden

D  Norway

A  racial passing

B  racial assimilation

C  population transfer

D  cultural assimilation

A  It will help train poor people to use technology.

B  In online interactions, there is no way to see what other people look like.

C  It lets corporations gather large amounts of data about individual consumers.

D  It will make the economy more efficient, thus generating more wealth for all.

A  passing.

B  prejudice.

C  discrimination.

D  pluralism.

A  Even the structure of families is dependent on race.

B  The employment structure of inner cities has collapsed.

C  Race can have an effect on health.

D  Race is an interactional accomplishment.

A  They feel that the men they encounter are less likely to offer the advantages that make marriage worth the risk.

B  They come from a culture of poverty that does not value marriage.

C  They are less likely to be in love.

D  They are officially discouraged from doing so by the government.

A  blacks are given equal treatment by the U.S. justice system.

B  the criminal justice system has a racial bias.

C  African Americans commit more murders than other racial or ethnic groups.

D  whites are often the victims of reverse discrimination.

A  population transfer.

B  internal colonialism.

C  genocide.

D  colonialism.

A  passing

B  situational ethnicity

C  the disparities in racial consequences

D  symbolic ethnicity

A  Race is not a side effect of class; rather, it permeates every aspect of daily life.

B  Both race and class are created by biological factors inherent in being human.

C  Race is a secondary phenomenon that results from the class system.

D  Class is an unintended consequence of racial hierarchies.

A  a group that makes up less than 20 percent of the total population

B  a group that makes up less than 50 percent of the total population

C  a group that is smaller than the dominant group

D  a group whose members suffer from unequal treatment

A  biological differences, as different races have radically different hormones

B  greatly increased levels of law enforcement violence directed at certain racial groups

C  disparities in access to health care

D  genetic differences resulting in predispositions to various diseases

A  the difference between Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid people

B  a group with a shared cultural heritage

C  the same way they define ethnicity

D  a social category based on real or perceived biological differences

A  a fondue pot

B  a melting pot

C  a reservation

D  a salad bowl

A  the linguistic barriers that prevent communication

B  the assumption that differences between groups are innate, or biologically based

C  the need to generate finance capital

D  a negative view of a group’s cultural characteristics

A  the social construction of race

B  an enactment of symbolic ethnicity

C  racial pluralism

D  racial passing

A  minority

B  postmodern

C  pluralistic

D  majority-minority

A  the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda

B  the death of 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II

C  the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government after World War I

D  attacks on ethnic minorities in the Darfur region of Sudan

A  Prejudice and discrimination are perpetuated by economic, not racial, factors.

B  Prejudice and discrimination help to increase group cohesion.

C  Prejudice and discrimination are the result of a struggle for scarce resources.

D  Prejudice and discrimination are established on an international level.

A  listen to the right kind of music

B  set his or her avatar or picture to look like a cartoon

C  be able to include racially relevant content and language in interactions

D  It is almost impossible, as no one trusts anything he or she encounters on the Internet.

A  ethnic conflict.

B  internal colonialism.

C  population transfer.

D  racial assimilation.

A  a group with a shared ancestry or shared cultural heritage

B  people who share a common physical characteristic

C  the same way they define race

D  people with the same skin color

A  racial assimilation.

B  cultural appropriation.

C  race consciousness.

D  miscegenation.

A  It leads to overt discriminatory lending in home mortgages, resulting in unequal accumulation of wealth by racial minorities.

B  It encourages moderate prejudice and discrimination in the system of education.

C  It serves to maintain high levels of acceptable discriminatory practices in the workplace.

D  It perpetuates racial inequalities by making subtle forms of racism difficult to recognize and therefore difficult to address.

A  posing.

B  symbolic ethnicity.

C  disembodied identities.

D  situational ethnicity.

A  thinking that African Americans are better dancers than white people

B  believing that the Irish drink too much

C  believing Asians are good at math

D  refusing to sell someone a house in a particular neighborhood because of his or her race

A  racial passing

B  situational ethnicity

C  symbolic ethnicity

D  the social construction of race

A  hegemony

B  passing

C  individual discrimination

D  reverse discrimination

A  Such beliefs justify social arrangements between dominant and minority groups that benefit those who accept them.

B  People knew much less about world history then, so it seemed more plausible.

C  People are, by nature, hostile and look to blame their problems on others.

D  Nineteenth-century science was not very well developed, so no authority figures could debunk racist beliefs.