What were sundown towns?
a. Industrialized areas in the North where aspects of African American culture such as
literature and music were able to flourish
b. American towns and cities where non-white populations were expelled between the
1890 s and the 1960s
c. Regional pockets in South Africa that didn’t conform to Apartheid
d. Towns and villages in the South that were destroyed by violence associated with
Black protests
Accent, dialect, and home address are all
a. racial characteristics.
b. characteristics associated with race.
c. innate characteristics.
d. characteristics of equality.
During cultural assimilation (or acculturation), members of the minority groups coming
to the United States might adopt the English language, change their eating habits,
acquire new value systems, or change their names.
a. True
b. False
In Sherif’s Robber’s Cave experiment:
a. Cooperation increased prejudice
b. All intergroup contact reduced prejudice
c. Competition was isolated to games only
d. Prejudice caused rejection, attacks, and competition
e. None of the above
Among Hispanic Americans, English fluency:
a. Increases by generation and is greatest for people who have been in the United States
the longest
b. Is very low and decreases with length of residence
c. Is very high; most Latino immigrants arrive with a good knowledge of English
d. Is extremely low for those who speak Spanish at home
e. Does not correlate with economic success for all Hispanics
As society becomes more diverse with new immigrants and deals with unresolved
minority grievances, what are the issues that threaten stability?
a. Split labor markets, racial and ethnic stratification, urban poverty, and institutional
discrimination
b. Race relations, unemployment, crime, and poverty
c. Health, income, residence, and resources
d. All of the above
If we look at the immigration patterns since 1900, it can be argued that Mexicans have
served as a reserve labor pool for the benefit of U.S. businesses, agricultural interests,
and other groups.
a. True
b. False
The DREAM ACT was designed to grant amnesty to those who had fulfilled the
American Dream by gainful employment for five years or more, even though they were
illegally in the US.
a. True
b. False
Because Chinese Americans today are so highly educated, they find no barriers to the
highest, most lucrative positions.
a. True
b. False
Which two characteristics of West Indian immigrants make them more acceptable to the
dominant Anglo American group?
a. They are well-educated and speak English
b. They are hard workers and oriented toward commerce
c. They have a high rate of intermarriage and a light complexion
d. They are predominantly Christian and politically active
Melting pot is a term for:
a. The traditional perspective on assimilation
b. How diverse peoples helped to construct U.S. society
c. Assimilation as egalitarian and benign
d. A process that emphasizes sharing and inclusion
e. All of the above
The central tactics of the civil rights movement under Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
emphasized nonviolent, direct action.
a. True
b. False
Between 2008-2010, ___ of all marriages in Hawaii crossed group lines.
a. 22%
b. 32%
c. 42%
d. 72%
One of the first to support pluralism, newspaper editor _________ argued in The Nation
in 1915 that the existence of separate ethnic groupseven with separate cultures,
religions, and languagescould be quite consistent with a democratic political system.
a. Robert Park
b. Milton Gordon
c. Horace Kallen
d. Stephen Steinberg
e. Karl Marx
Today, most social analysts see Mexican Americans in terms of the “culture of poverty”
perspective and justify their lower status as a result of an unhealthy value system.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is incorrect regarding the Buraku of Japan?
a. The Buraku people are a minority and fit all parts of the definition stated in Chapter
1except that there is no physical, cultural, religious, or linguistic difference between
them and other Japanese.
b. The ancestors of today’s Buraku people did work that was regarded as very low in
status (they worked with leather), and their practitioners were seen as being “unclean”
or polluted.
c. They were forbidden to marry outside their caste.
d. Any member of the general population who touched a member of the Buraku class
had to be ritually purified or cleansed of pollution.
e. The Buraku people were integrated into village life but had to wear leather
identification badges much like Jews in Nazi Germany.
The Jim Crow system was motivated by a need to control labor and was reinforced by
coercion and intense racism and prejudice.
a. True
b. False
The tendency for skilled, educated individuals to leave their countries of origin is
referred to as
a. brain drain.
b. ethnic cleansing.
c. segmented assimilation.
d. human capitalism.
Asian Americans are called the “model minority” and they are proud to be seen so
positively.
a. True
b. False
Black nationalism is more than simply a reaction to a failed dream. It is:
a. A different way of defining what it means to be black in America
b. A movement to return to Africa
c. Defensiveness and a sense of threat in white society
d. None of the above
e. All of the above
According to the Noel hypothesis, if two or more groups come into contact who are
characterized by ethnocentrism, competition, and differences in power, then some form
of ethnic or racial stratification will result.
a. True
b. False
All of the cultures examined in the text have __________ traditions.
a. weak
b. patriarchal
c. egalitarian
d. subliminal
Although the economic benefits of urbanization have been low, one positive outcome is
that it was easier for American Indians to establish networks of friendship and
affiliation across tribal lines in urban areas/cities.
a. True
b. False
When American Indians arrived in the cities, the burden of supporting the families fell
on the:
a. Older men
b. Women
c. Teenagers
d. Younger men
e. None of the above
The primary reasons for much contemporary immigration are _____________ and
_____________.
a. Economic, political
b. Economic, educational
c. Political, medical
d. Educational, religious
e. Religious, educational
Cesar Chavez’s protest tactics are best described as
a. violent and explosive.
b. disorganized and effective.
c. intimidating and subliminal.
d. direct and nonviolent.
Latinos’ percentage of the population is increasing rapidly, partly because of their:
a. High Immigration Rates
b. Greater ease in obtaining citizenship
c. Both A and B above
d. None of the above
The future of African Americans is inextricably bound to the fate of:
a. The cities
b. The Civil Rights movement
c. The cotton industry
d. Illegal immigrants
e. Agriculture
The traditional American perception of race as based primarily on skin color has no
scientific validity.
a. True
b. False
A third type of pluralism that reversed Gordon’s first two stages would be:
a. Acculturation without pluralism
b. Acculturation without separatism
c. Integration without acculturation
d. Integration without equality
e. Separatism without integration
The experiences of Mexican Americans with European Americans in Arizona, New
Mexico, California, and Texas illustrate the following generalization about Mexican
American experiences:
a. Subordination of the Mexican American population followed quickly after a rapid
influx of Anglos.
b. The contact situation for Mexican Americans was highly variable by region.
c. Mexican Americans retained some political power and economic clout, mostly
because of the relatively large size of the group and their ability to mobilize for political
action.
d. Without moving, the Mexican population became a conquered people and a minority
group.
e. All of the above
Massey argues for segmented assimilation, in that current immigrants differ from the
earlier immigrants in which of the following ways:
a. Immigration was restricted after the 1920s so immigrants grew to adulthood without
continuing contact with the old country in the form of more recent immigrants.
b. The speed and ease of modern transportation and communication will help to
maintain cultural and linguistic diversity.
c. A large percentage of the descendants of contemporary immigrants face permanent
membership in a growing underclass population.
d. All of the above.
e. A and B only.
The secondary sector includes interpersonal relationships that are intimate and personal,
such as families and groups of friends.
a. True
b. False
There is a huge difference between net worth between blacks and whites, which can be
attributed to:
a. The black middle class is now over 40% of the black population.
b. Once African Americans’ equity in their homes and cars are subtracted out, they are
left with no wealth at all.
c. A better measure for net worth is a comparison of the educational opportunity
between blacks and whites.
d. None of the above