During the early years of European colonization, American Indians were stereotyped as
a. wealthy entrepreneurs.
b. gentle giants.
c. lazy minorities.
d. cruel savages.
Approximately what percentage of Southern whites owned slaves?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 70%
e. 90%
According to a public opinion survey conducted in 2000, affirmative action programs
are strongly supported by a majority of:
a. Black respondents
b. Native American respondents
c. Women respondents
d. White respondents
e. None of the above
What was the significant finding of Royster’s 2003 study examining black and white
graduates?
a. One’s work ethic essentially determines professional success.
b. Access to jobs is controlled by one’s network or who one knows.
c. African American students demonstrated numerous blue-collar skills, whereas white
students were better suited for white-collar jobs.
d. Compared to white graduates, black graduates had higher interest rates on their
student loans.
Between 1963 and 1980, the women’s liberation movement was integral in passing all
of the following laws except the
a. Equal Pay Act.
b. Equal Rights Amendment.
c. Women’s Educational Equity Act
d. Title IX.
There is no legacy of slavery in Brazil today.
a. True
b. False
Periods of segregation _______ occur in Brazil after slavery ended.
a. Did
b. Did not
Equal treatment of women best describes the philosophy of:
a. Gender reform feminism
b. Gender resistant feminism
c. Gender rebellion feminism
d. Cultural feminism
The concept of social distance best reflects:
a. Stereotypes
b. Prejudice
c. Economic factors
d. How close we stand to a person from another culture
e. The degree of intimacy we are willing to permit
Institutional discrimination is often difficult to identify and measure because:
a. It usually is masked by overt racism
b. The individuals who implement it may be non-prejudiced and unaware of what they
are doing
c. It ended decades ago, and we have to rely on historical accounts to conduct research
d. It affects only the most outspoken and angry members of minority groups
e. It is virtually nonexistent today
What was one outcome of President Clinton’s Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell policy?
a. The discharge of many homosexual racial minorities and women from the military
b. An increased tolerance for gays and lesbians in the military
c. The recognition of same-sex marriages by many states
d. An increase in support for the Defense of Marriage Act
According to American standards, the label of “successful” would apply to all of the
below groups except
a. Vietnamese Americans.
b. Filipino Americans.
c. Chinese Americans.
d. Japanese Americans .
Which of the following is incorrect regarding the assimilation of Mexican Americans?
a. They have experienced less social mobility than European immigrant groups and
have maintained their traditional culture and language more completely.
b. Like African Americans, the group is split along lines of social class
c. A large segment continues to fill the same economic role as their ancestors: an
unskilled labor force.
d. The traditional model of assimilation describes the experiences of Mexican
Americans very well.
e. The traditional model of assimilation does not describe the experiences of Mexican
Americans very well.
The Issei generation in California made up about 2% of the population but produced as
much as __ of the fruits and vegetables grown in the state of California.
a. 20%”30%
b. 30%”40%
c. 50%”60%
d. 60%”70%
The two groups projected to increase dramatically in the United States over the next
half century are:
a. Asian and Pacific Islanders and Hispanic Americans
b. Non-Hispanic white Americans and African Americans
c. Irish Americans and Eastern Europeans
d. African Americans and Hispanic Americans
e. Africans and Arab Americans
“Disparate impact” means:
a. A practice has unequal results; federal policy and court precedents tend to assume
that the practice is racially biased
b. Using race as a way to employ more whites
c. Limiting the number of people who work full-time
d. Reducing the negative impact on whites from affirmative action programs
“The elite segments of American society are using prejudice and racism to manipulate
the thoughts and ideas of minority groups and to brainwash them into accepting their
position in society.” This statement is most consistent with:
a. Marxist analysis
b. The scapegoat hypothesis
c. Split labor market theory
d. Attribution theory
e. Social distance scale
Variations in human skin color:
a. Balance the dangers of exposure to sunlight with the need for vitamin D
b. Have no relationship to climate or geography
c. Are inversely related to the concentration of melanin: the greater the melanin, the
lighter the skin
d. Are related to the distance of the equators: the closer to the equator, the lighter the
skin color
e. Have clear and definite points of demarcation
Which of the following is a primary difference between the African American and
Mexican American experience during the contact period?
a. Unlike African Americans, Mexican Americans were not a source of inexpensive
labor
b. Unlike the African American situation, the Mexican American culture was not
suppressed
c. Unlike African Americans, Mexican Americans were close to their homeland and
could stay in touch with their language and heritage
d. Unlike African Americans, Mexican Americans benefited economically and
politically from their colonization
In general, colonized groups are at a __________ power disadvantage compared to
immigrant groups.
a. greater
b. reduced
c. beneficial
d. limited
Asian cultures, unlike Western cultures, tend not to stress:
a. Individualism
b. Shame
c. Obedience
d. Sensitivity to the opinion of others
e. Not giving offense
Prejudice is to discrimination as:
a. Thinking is to feeling
b. Acting is to behaving
c. Thinking is to doing
d. Saying is to feeling
e. All of the above
The central strategy of the protest movement that eventually defeated the Jim Crow
system was:
a. Continuous violence against businesses that refused service to blacks
b. Letters to editors of newspapers
c. Nonviolent direct action in the streets
d. None of the above
e. All of the above
A huge majority of Arab Americans:
a. sympathize with Islamic extremist terrorist groups
b. denounce terrorist groups
c. are victims of a strong stereotype
d. b and c above
e. none of the above
The Nation of Islam and other black power groups attempted to establish:
a. Racial segregation
b. Racial separation
c. Cultural assimilation
d. Structural assimilation
e. None of the above
A “middleman minority” establishes its own neighborhood and relies on a set of
interconnected businesses for its economic survival.
a. True
b. False
Pluralism is often couched in the language of multiculturalism, a term for a variety of
programs and ideas that stress mutual respect for all groups and for the multiple
heritages that shaped the United States.
a. True
b. False
One study of Haitians found that certain factors combined to lead the Haitian second
generation to a relatively low level of academic achievement. What are those factors?
a. their hostile reception by Americans
b. their poverty and lack of education
c. their racial background
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Theoretically, women attained the right to vote in the year __________; however, in
practice voting rights for women didn’t occur until __________.
a. 1865; the first wave of feminists
b. 1920; the second wave of feminists
c. 1957; the third wave of feminists
d. 1969; the fourth wave of feminists
Which two laws ended Jim Crow segregation?
a. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965
b. The Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1955 and the Human Rights Act of 1970
c. The Fair Housing Act and the Equal Pay Act of 1963
d. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the National Voter Registration Act
Immigrants from India are overrepresented in some of the prestigious occupations
a. Computer engineering, medicine, and college teaching
b. Medicine, science, and technology
c. Computer engineering, web development, and orthodontist
d. Surgeons, dentists, and marketing managers
According to labor market theory, who is the major beneficiary of prejudice?
a. The capitalist class
b. The dominant group
c. Cheap laborers
d. Higher-priced laborers
Emory Bogardus specified a total of seven degrees of social distance. Which of the
following is not one of them?
a. To close kinship by marriage
b. To my church as fellow parishioners
c. To employment in my occupation
d. To citizenship in my country
e. Would exclude from my country