Quiz 8

A  institutional racism

B  stereotype interchangeability

C  White privilege

D  pluralist frustration

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

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

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

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

A  An inability to understand nonracist viewpoints

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

C  Resistance to policy efforts to alleviate racially oppressive practices

D  Subtle and persistent negative stereotyping

A  neoracism.

B  traditional racism.

C  aversive racism.

D  overt racism.

A  involves actions, not attitudes.

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

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

D  is limited to individual behavior.

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

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

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

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

A  prejudgment but not misjudgment.

B  both prejudgment and misjudgment.

C  neither prejudgment nor misjudgment.

D  misjudgment but not prejudgment.

A  neither positive nor negative.

B  always positive.

C  usually negative.

D  equally positive and negative.

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

B  are accepted by science but not the general population.

C  remain the dominant focus.  

D  are fundamental.

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

B  generalizations about minority groups by the dominant group.

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

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

A  Group members share common beliefs.

B  Group members share a sense of solidarity and identity.

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

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

A  invariant.

B  biological.

C  transgenerational.

D  fluid.

A  logic.

B  science.

C  opinion.

D  fact.

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

B  The language that each group speaks

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

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

A  Racial formation occurs in youth.

B  Individuals have a single race but multiple ethnicities.

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

D  Biological characteristics are the major determinants of race.

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

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

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

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

A  Racialization

B  Racial formation

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 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.

C  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.

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

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

B  Race is assigned based on scientific investigation.

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

D  Race is a socially constructed category.

A  dominant

B  racial

C  ethnic

D  minority