Modern institutional discrimination is one of the major challenges facing minority
groups.
a. True
b. False
Michelle is a poor African American woman. Her race, class, and gender may combine
to produce a unique kind of inequality. The concept that describes this phenomenon is
known as:
a. Matrix of domination
b. Marx’s class oppression
c. Minority group
d. Triple discrimination
e. Triple melting pot
Research exploring race/gender dynamics and Asian American”Pacific Islanders found
that which art form helped negate traditional gender specific stereotypes?
a. Hip-hop music
b. Mixed media
c. Photography
d. Writing poetry
Whites and blacks perceive treatment by police and the court system very differently.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are limitations to a minority group’s ability to pursue its own
self-interest except
a. large group size.
b. language barriers.
c. divided within-group loyalties.
d. lack of resources.
In the past African Americans outside the South faced more poverty, high
unemployment, and a lower quality of housing and schools than whites.
a. True
b. False
According to research examining American stereotypes since 1990, which of the
following stereotypes persists in American society?
a. English as musical
b. Italians as conventional
c. Jews as unintelligent
d. Blacks as lazy
The Issei-dominated enclave economy reappeared after the war.
a. True
b. False
In the _____ case in 1896, the Supreme Court established the “separate but equal”
doctrine:
a. Dred Scott v. Sandford
b. Roe v. Wade
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Marvin v. Mitchell
e. Amistad v. Virginia
Which of the following is not an example of the affective dimension of prejudice?
a. Fear and anger
b. Stereotyping and overgeneralizations
c. Repulsion and hatred
d. General dislike
e. Distrust
State Bill 1070 was a controversial law that required law enforcement officers to check
the immigration status of anyone they stopped, detained, or arrested if they had a
“reasonable” suspicion that the person might be in the country illegally. The Bill was
passed in the state of
a. California.
b. Arizona.
c. Texas.
d. Nevada.
Though Americans traditionally saw race as __________, research suggests that racial
identity is becoming more__________.
a. dichotomous; complex
b. situational; genetic
c. protean; fixed
d. flexible; visible
Proposition 187 was originally proposed in the state of:
a. New York
b. Arizona
c. New Mexico
d. Florida
e. California
New “racial” groups can arise from intermarriage.
a. True
b. False
American Indians are the least urbanized American minority group.
a. True
b. False
A culture in which male violence and rape are tolerated is called a rape culture.
a. True
b. False
Social distance patterns demonstrate the power of culture to shape individual
perceptions and preferences.
a. True
b. False
When minority groups in a society are exploited and held in a powerless status by the
dominant group, which of the following stereotypes is most likely to emerge about that
minority group?
a. Too crafty
b. Too materialistic
c. Too smart
d. Too ambitious
e. Lazy
In the 1960s a very intense and militant protest movement emerged, guided by the
ideology of Chicanismo.
a. True
b. False
Past-in-present institutional discrimination involves practices in the present that have
discriminatory consequences because of some pattern of discrimination or exclusion in
the past. One example of this is:
a. Principle of seniority in the workforce
b. Educational requirements for jobs
c. Affirmative Action
d. Overt discrimination
The most visible enemy of African Americans as they entered the twentieth century
was:
a. Extreme inequality
b. Powerlessness
c. Limitations on their freedom
d. Jim Crow system in the South
e. All of the above
The most accepting part of the world towards LGBT people is:
a. The U.S.
b. Asia
c. Europe
d. South America
Research in Europe supports the contact hypothesis.
a. True
b. False
Continuing industrial revolution is a powerful force in the current stream of
immigration to the United States.
a. True
b. False
The United States continues to be the preferred destination of most immigrant groups.
a. True
b. False
Female-headed households tend to be poor because:
a. Lower wages paid to women in general and to African American women in particular
b. Interaction of sexism and racism
c. Most are based upon a single income, rather than a dual income
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
For decades, Mexican immigration to the United States has flowed according to
a. U.S. immigration policy.
b. opportunities for work.
c. the strength of the Border Patrol.
d. the war on drugs in Mexico.
The modern civil rights movement is generally considered as beginning with the legal
case of Plessy v. Ferguson.
a. True
b. False
Only _______________ groups seem to approximate the traditional model of
assimilation.
a. Chinese American groups
b. Hispanic American
c. European American ethnic groups
d. American Indian groups
Which of the following groups is the poorest?
a. African Americans
b. Native Americans
c. Japanese Americans
d. Cuban Americans
e. Mexican Americans
Which of the following would not typically be found in a paternalistic system of group
relations?
a. A caste system
b. A rural agricultural economy
c. Forced acceptance of the dominant group culture
d. Extensive residential segregation
e. Nearly total power by law and custom over the minority group
___ are Chinese Americans that overlap social and welfare services that include settling
disputes, aiding new arrivals from their region, and developing mutual aid networks.
a. Tongs
b. Huiguan
c. Chinese groups
d. Second generation meetings
The intensity, strength, and popularity of anti-black Southern racism actually reached its
height:
a. Almost 200 years after slavery began to emerge
b. Shortly before the Africans first arrived in America
c. During the Civil War
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
The Asian cultural values that explain the success of Asian Americans include respect
for elders and authority figures, hard work and thriftiness, and conformity and
politeness.
a. True
b. False