A Black worker is shown how to perform her factory job by a White male supervisor.
According to the contact hypothesis, this situation would be unlikely to reduce
prejudice because ________.
a. it is set in a blue-collar work environment
b. the worker is not a White woman
c. the two individuals do not have equal status
d. sexism and racism are prevalent
The first Africans in colonial America were indentured servants whose children were
________.
a. designated as slaves
b. born free people
c. also indentured servants
d. victims of abuse
Anita Juarez, a Mexican American woman, works in the public relations department of
a firm. Though she is promoted quickly within her department, her attempts to move
into the marketing department and to key executive positions are not approved by the
management. This is an example of ________.
a. reverse discrimination
b. a glass wall
c. affirmative action
d. a glass cliff
The Montgomery Improvement Association was headed by ________.
a. Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. W. E. B. Du Bois
c. A. Philip Randolph
d. Booker T. Washington
U.S. born Filipinos tend to have ________ than the new arrivals.
a. more start-up capital for businesses
b. more formal schooling
c. lower job status
d. lesser political ambitions
Secession is ________.
a. the physical separation of two groups in residence, workplace, and social functions
b. the withdrawal of a group of people from a dominant group to establish a new nation
c. the eviction of a specific subordinate group from certain areas or even a nation
d. the deliberate, systematic killing of an entire population or people
Which of the following accurately describes the term Yonsei?
a. American-born Chinese
b. fourth-generation Japanese Americans
c. first-generation Japanese Americans
d. Japanese Americans sent by their parents to Japan for schooling
Which of the following terms refers to the night in Berlin on November 9, 1938, when
ninety Berlin Jews were murdered, hundreds of homes and synagogues were set on fire
or ransacked, and thousands of Jewish store windows were broken?
a. Yiddishkait
b. Diaspora
c. Appelplatz
d. Kristallnacht
Which of the following statements is true of acting White or acting Black?
a. Acting White shifts the responsibility of low school attainment from the school to the
individual and, thus, depicts an example of blaming the victim.
b. The acting-White thesis overemphasizes structural features rather than personal
responsibility.
c. To equate acting White with high academic achievement has much empirical and
cultural support.
d. The primary stumbling block is not about being presented with similar educational
opportunities
but about acting White or acting Black.
What isreverse discrimination?
a. The charge that women are discriminated against in employment practices.
b. The charge that affirmative action discriminates against dominant group members.
c. The charge that law enforcement officers belonging to majority groups discriminate
against others.
d. The charge that employees in senior management positions exploit those in lower
levels of the organizational hierarchy.
In the context of the anti-Chinese movement, which of the following actions did
Congress take in 1892?
a. It extended the Chinese Exclusion Act for another ten years.
b. It apologized for the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
c. It revoked the Chinese Exclusion Act.
d. It witnessed its first Chinese member, Judy Chu.
Which of the following statements is true of German immigrants in the early history of
America?
a. German became the national language owing to the large numbers of German
immigrants.
b. The proceedings of the Continental Congress were published in English but not in
German.
c. German Americans established bilingual programs in many public schools.
d. The English Americans welcomed German immigrants and treated them equally.
Marielitos refer to ________.
a. clubs that maintain ties with Latin America
b. the third wave refugees from Cuba
c. immigrants from Puerto Rica
d. foreign businesses that operate in Mexico
In sociologist Howard Waitzkin’s view, the stress resulting from racial prejudice and
discrimination helps explain the higher rates of ________ found among African
Americans than among Whites.
a. arthritis
b. tuberculosis
c. hypertension
d. AIDS
With citizenship, the United States was to guarantee ________ in the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo.
a. religious freedom
b. a separate territory
c. political autonomy
d. free and fair trade
Among contemporary Mexican Americans, the term ________ connotes pride in a
pluralistic Spanish, Native American, and Mexican heritage.
a. mojados
b. Neoricans
c. curanderismo
d. La Raza
A clear indication of the multicultural nature of Hawai”i is ________.
a. the degree to which pan-Indianism is emerging
b. the degree of exogamy, or marrying outside one’s own group
c. the degree of education received from overseas
d. the number of racial ghettos emerging in residential neighborhoods
Which of the following was endorsed by Minister Louis Farrakhan?
a. bigotry
b. polygamy
c. leniency in punishment
d. bootstrap capitalism
Naturalization rights were denied to the Chinese in the United States by the enactment
of the ________.
a. Chinese Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
b. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
c. Chinese Welfare Reform Act of 1996
d. Transformation of Immigration Management of 2003
Beginning with which of the following president’s administration, did the federal
government make explicit efforts to include religious organizations?
a. President George W. Bush
b. President Clinton
c. President Barack Obama
d. President Ronald Reagan
________ are immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their
societies of origin and settlement.
a. Neoricans
b. Transnationals
c. Mojados
d. Suffragists
One difference between Jewish and non-Jewish European immigrants to the United
States at the end of the nineteenth century was that ________.
a. Jews were much more likely to stay in the United States
b. Jews were much more likely to return to Europe
c. Jews were much more likely to immediately merge into the older American
settlements
d. Jews were much more likely to be moneylenders
________ refers to a range of negative feelings toward Muslims and their religion.
a. Acrophobia
b. Xenophobia
c. Islamophobia
d. Theophobia
With regard to the color gradient, which of the following is true of mestizos?
a. They are the smallest numerical group.
b. They occupy the bottommost spot.
c. They occupy the middle status.
d. They are at the same position as criollos.
In the twentieth century, many Mexican Indians intermarried with the descendants of
the Europeans, forming a ________ class of people of mixed ancestry.
a. kanaka maoli
b. branco
c. mojado
d. mestizo
Great Britain expanded its colonial control from Egypt into Palestine ________.
a. after World War II, when Jews resumed their demand for a homeland
b. with the rise of the the Ottoman Empire
c. with the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity
d. after driving out the Turks during World War I
Jim Crow refers to ________.
a. folk heroes of West Africans
b. emancipation proclamations
c. theories of the talented tenth
d. racial segregation laws
The key factor in reducing racial hostility, in addition to equal-status contact, is
________.
a. the presence of a common goal
b. the emphasis on cultural difference
c. marginalization of minority groups
d. restricted intergroup contact
Another term for an ethnic slur is ________.
a. ethnocentrism
b. prejudice
c. ethnophaulism
d. discrimination
According to Carmichael and Hamilton, ________ can take place without an individual
intending to deprive others of privileges and even without the individual being aware
that others are being deprived.
a. pluralism
b. anti-Semitism
c. color-blind racism
d. institutional racism
Pentecostalism and similar faiths are attractive to many Latinos because ________.
a. they hold beliefs against religious experiences such as faith healing
b. they offer followers the opportunity to express their religious fervor openly
c. they originate from the colonies of Central and South America
d. they increase the likelihood of permanent residency to illegal immigrants
The most consistently documented strength of the Black family is the presence of
________.
a. a strong male wage earner
b. subsidized childcare for working mothers
c. an extended family household
d. a strong nonreligious orientation
In the context of American Indian identity, which of the following refers to tribal
self-rule and is recognition that tribes have vibrant economic and cultural lives?
a. autonomy
b. secularity
c. diversity
d. sovereignty