Recently (since 2005) immigration from Mexico has fallen off dramatically, primarily
because of Enhanced border enforcement
b. A weak economy and job market in the U.S.
c. A declining birthrate in Mexico
d. All of the above
e. A and B only
Which of the following groups is the most acculturated?
a. Mexican Americans
b. Chinese Americans
c. Cuban Americans
d. African Americans
e. Korean Americans
Which term is associated with the concept of intersectionality?
a. Elitist
b. Womanist
c. Mystique
d. Suffrage
Unlike its policy towards Cubans, the U.S. has defined Haitian refugees as “economic
refugees” ineligible for asylum. Moreover, the U.S. has campaigned to keep Haitians
out of the U.S. According to the textbook, what reason best explains this difference in
treatment?
a. Haitians have low levels of human capital, creating concern that they won’t be able to
support themselves.
b. They speak a language that few others speak.
c. They are black and, as a result, are subject to racism that is a part of U.S. culture and
history.
d. All of the above are equally important in explaining these policy differences.
e. A and B
Failure to achieve is never the fault of the individual according to modern feminists.
a. True
b. False
Non-Hispanic immigrants from the Caribbean include:
a. Haitians
b. Dominicans
c. Jamaicans
d. All of the above
e. A and C
The change in values and norms associated with the positive view of masculine traits
and the negative view of feminine traits is called:
a. Gender reform
b. Equal Rights
c. Women’s Liberation
d. Cultural feminism
The Nation of Islam wanted to develop the black community economically and supply
jobs and capital solely by using their own resources.
a. True
b. False
The primary sector consists of groups and organizations that are more public, task
oriented, and impersonal.
a. True
b. False
The delayed second generation for the Chinese Americans may have reinforced their
exclusion because:
a. Children of immigrants are usually more acculturated
b. Members of the second generation were citizens of the United States by birth
c. The second generation has legal and political rights not available to their parents
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Avi was a tailor who immigrated to America in 1897 to avoid religious persecution in
Russia. He settled in New York City and worked in the garment industry. Avi is an
example of a(n)
a. agrarian immigrant of the Old Immigration
b. Eastern European immigrant who was part of the New Immigration
c. Western European immigrant who was part of an enclave economy.
d. unskilled laborer who was part of the Old Immigration
Which component of the contact situation explains why Africans were enslaved instead
of the other
groups?
a. Colonized minority groups
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Paternalistic relations
d. Differential in power
Societies are divided into horizontal layers (or strata) often called:
a. Levels of importance
b. Social classes
c. Horizontal layers
d. Social tiers
e. None of the above
There is a __________ yet __________ gender gap in income.
a. minor; equal
b. widening; unrecognized
c. decreasing; persistent
d. large; understandable
Assimilation in the United States generally has been a coercive and one-sided process
described as Anglo-Conformity.
a. True
b. False
Which tribe in America is developing an ethnic enclave?
a. Navajo
b. Choctaw
c. Pequot
d. Utes
You hear someone say that “all women are bad drivers,” “all Asians are smart,” and “all
Latinos drive low-riders.” These are examples of:
a. Prejudice
b. Discrimination
c. Stereotypes
d. Scapegoating
e. Cognition
The founding of Israel was a direct result of
a. Normal migration patterns of the Jewish people
b. The horrors of the WWII Holocaust
c. Colonialism by the Jewish people
d. None of the above
The contact period for American Indians began in earliest colonial days and lasted
nearly:
a. 400 years
b. 250 years
c. 300 years
d. 800 years
e. None of the above
A. Philip Randolph is significant in that he led a movement that forced the first federal
commitment to fair employment rights for black Americans.
a. True
b. False
The survival vitality of Latino cultures in the U.S. has been greater due to continuous
and recent immigration.
a. True
b. False
In U.S. immigration law, quotas for each origin country were established in what year?
a. 1965
b. 1921
c. 1901
d. 1924
e. 1929
Asian Americans have common features:
a. They are tiny fractions of the U.S. population
b. Most groups have grown dramatically in recent decades
c. They have had common experiences in the United States
d. A and B above
e. None of the above
The family wage is:
a. A wage paid to male workers so they can support their family
b. The combining of the income of all members of the family
c. The wage paid to female heads of household
d. A wage paid to married people only
The poverty rate for African American families is ___ times greater than the rate for
whites.
a. 2.5 to 3 times
b. 1.5 to 2 times
c. 4.5 to 6 times
d. .2 to 2 times
Which statement regarding sexual assault and the military is accurate?
a. Males in the military have reported more unwanted sexual contact from other men
than women have.
b. Sexual assault in the military occurs most frequently during times of war.
c. Due to its patriarchal nature, the military is intolerant of sexual assault.
d. Over 90% of sexual assault survivors in the military report the crime to law
enforcement.
Today, white ethnic groups are equal with (or above) national norms in terms of average
income, education, unemployment, and other measures of economic success.
a. True
b. False
During the recent immigration from Mexico to the US, about 12 million people came
into the country, ___% illegal.
a. 20
b. 51
c. 78
d. 10
Since the 1960s, how many immigrants (excluding undocumented ones) have arrived in
the U.S.?
a. 10 million
b. 20 million
c. 30 million
d. 40 million
e. 50 million
Like African Americans, American Indians were also controlled by paternalism.
a. True
b. False
Which two conditions of the Noel hypothesis were not present in the initial contact
situation between Europeans and Hawaiian Islanders?
a. Labor and ethnocentrism
b. Competition and power differential
c. Dominance and self-determination
d. Segregation and assimilation
Which hypothesis can be literally and directly applied to LGBTs?
a. The Blauner hypothesis
b. The Portia hypothesis
c. The Null hypothesis
d. The Noel hypothesis
Gender Rebellion:
a. Is related to the concept of unisex
b. Is a movement designed to assign traditional male characteristics to females
c. Is a male movement designed to reestablish traditional male-female roles
d. Is the rejection of any label attached to sex
The Boer War was a fight between
a. The British and black African tribes
b. The Dutch and the black African tribes
c. The British and the Dutch
d. None of the above
Theories concerning the racial future of America include all but which of the below:
Whitening
b. Browning
c. Racial trichotomy
d. Status quo