Quiz 8

A  stereotype interchangeability

B  White privilege

C  institutional racism

D  pluralist frustration

A  A waiter refusing to serve a Black man who sits in his section

B  A landlord who will never rent to anyone who has dark skin

C  Dr. Jones, a professor, claiming she doesn’t even notice the color of her students’ skin

D  Airport security procedures that specify people who appear to be Middle Eastern should be scrutinized more closely than others

A  Resistance to policy efforts to alleviate racially oppressive practices

B  Subtle and persistent negative stereotyping

C  A tendency to blame blacks for the gap in economic standing

D  An inability to understand nonracist viewpoints

A  traditional racism.

B  aversive racism.

C  neoracism.

D  overt racism.

A  is limited to individual behavior.

B  has practically disappeared in the United States since Barack Obama was elected president.

C  involves actions, not attitudes.

D  is the perception and treatment of members of a racial group as inferior.

A  when two people of different races apply for the same housing, both are equally likely to be accepted or turned down.

B  discrimination in housing is less important than other forms of discrimination.

C  reverse discrimination, or discrimination toward a White person, is equally as common as discrimination against minority group members.

D  members of minority groups are frequently turned down for housing in situations in which a White person is not.

A  both prejudgment and misjudgment.

B  neither prejudgment nor misjudgment.

C  misjudgment but not prejudgment.

D  prejudgment but not misjudgment.

A  usually negative.

B  always positive.

C  neither positive nor negative.

D  equally positive and negative.

A  are fundamental.

B  remain the dominant focus.  

C  are accepted by science but not the general population.

D  are significant only because of the social meaning they have taken on.

A  understood to apply only to a few members of any particular group.

B  generally applied only to a dominant group within any society.

C  oversimplified statements of belief about members of a particular group.

D  generalizations about minority groups by the dominant group.

A  Group members possess characteristics considered different from those of the dominant group.

B  Group members share common beliefs.

C  Group members share a sense of solidarity and identity.

D  Group members suffer prejudice and discrimination within the society by the dominant group.

A  transgenerational.

B  invariant.

C  fluid.

D  biological.

A  fact.

B  opinion.

C  science.

D  logic.

A  The degree to which members of different groups differ from each other biologically

B  The amount of difference in ancestry or “blood” that different groups have

C  The language that each group speaks

D  The beliefs and interests of the most powerful group(s) in society

A  Racial formation occurs in youth.

B  Biological characteristics are the major determinants of race.

C  Individuals have a single race but multiple ethnicities.

D  Official institutions, such as governments, produce and maintain the meaning of race.

A  A person could select as many racial categories as they felt applied to them.

B  A person could select what they consider their primary and also their secondary racial identity.

C  A person could select a single, unified category for race and ethnicity together.

D  A person could select a single race as their identity.

A  Racial formation

B  Racialization

C  Ethnicity identification

D  Ethnogeneration

A  In the United States and in Brazil, one’s racial categorization is strongly influenced by one’s social class status.

B  In Brazil, race is determined by religious standards, but in the United States, religion does not typically play a role in racial categories.

C  In the United States, a person with any amount of Black ancestry has historically been designated as Black; in Brazil, other factors, including appearance and social status, play roles.

D  In Brazil, a person with any amount of Black ancestry has historically been designated as Black; in the United States, other factors, including appearance and social status, play roles.

A  Racial categories in a society reflect differences in the biological makeup of individuals.

B  Race is a socially constructed category.

C  Racial categories are the same in countries throughout the world.

D  Race is assigned based on scientific investigation.

A  minority

B  dominant

C  racial

D  ethnic