Quiz 6

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

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

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

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

A  Sweden

B  Canada

C  Norway

D  Denmark

A  cultural assimilation

B  racial assimilation

C  racial passing

D  population transfer

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

B  It will help train poor people to use technology.

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

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

A  prejudice.

B  discrimination.

C  pluralism.

D  passing.

A  Race can have an effect on health.

B  The employment structure of inner cities has collapsed.

C  Race is an interactional accomplishment.

D  Even the structure of families is dependent on race.

A  They are less likely to be in love.

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

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

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

A  the criminal justice system has a racial bias.

B  whites are often the victims of reverse discrimination.

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

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

A  population transfer.

B  colonialism.

C  genocide.

D  internal colonialism.

A  passing

B  the disparities in racial consequences

C  situational ethnicity

D  symbolic ethnicity

A  Class is an unintended consequence of racial hierarchies.

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

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

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

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 whose members suffer from unequal treatment

D  a group that is smaller than the dominant group

A  biological differences, as different races have radically different hormones

B  genetic differences resulting in predispositions to various diseases

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

D  disparities in access to health care

A  a group with a shared cultural heritage

B  a social category based on real or perceived biological differences

C  the difference between Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid people

D  the same way they define ethnicity

A  a salad bowl

B  a reservation

C  a melting pot

D  a fondue pot

A  the need to generate finance capital

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

C  a negative view of a group’s cultural characteristics

D  the linguistic barriers that prevent communication

A  the social construction of race

B  racial pluralism

C  racial passing

D  an enactment of symbolic ethnicity

A  majority-minority

B  pluralistic

C  postmodern

D  minority

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

B  attacks on ethnic minorities in the Darfur region of Sudan

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

D  the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda

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

B  Prejudice and discrimination are established on an international level.

C  Prejudice and discrimination help to increase group cohesion.

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

A  listen to the right kind of music

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

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

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

A  ethnic conflict.

B  population transfer.

C  racial assimilation.

D  internal colonialism.

A  people with the same skin color

B  a group with a shared ancestry or shared cultural heritage

C  the same way they define race

D  people who share a common physical characteristic

A  race consciousness.

B  cultural appropriation.

C  miscegenation.

D  racial assimilation.

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

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

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

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

A  situational ethnicity.

B  symbolic ethnicity.

C  disembodied identities.

D  posing.

A  believing Asians are good at math

B  believing that the Irish drink too much

C  thinking that African Americans are better dancers than white people

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

A  racial passing

B  symbolic ethnicity

C  situational ethnicity

D  the social construction of race

A  hegemony

B  reverse discrimination

C  passing

D  individual discrimination

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

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

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

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