Which statement is true about race in Brazil?
a. Race is seen as sharply delineated categories with clear, definite boundaries.
b. Race is seen as a series of categories that have ambiguous, indeterminate boundaries.
c. Race was equated with inferiority and slavery.
d. Race is not related to social status.
American Indians were highly individualistic rather than group oriented.
a. True
b. False
“Pink collar” refers to traditional female occupations
a. True
b. False
Laws on miscegenation referred to laws that prevented:
a. People from passing as members of another race
b. People of different races from eating together in public restaurants
c. Members of different races from intermarrying
d. Members of different races from going to the same schools
e. Members of the same sex from marrying
A 2012 survey of white respondents found that the most popular explanation for racial
inequality between blacks and whites was
a. problems within the African American community itself.
b. genetic or biological inferiority.
c. societal oppression and discrimination.
d. lack of policies intended to reduce racial inequality.
Hartley (1946) demonstrated there can be a generalized tendency to reject minority
groups of all sorts and stereotypes can exist apart from any need to rationalize or justify
dominant-group advantages when he found that:
a. Negative judgments about a group are always made after contact with that group
b. Some people will express prejudice against people who do not exist
c. Some people will readily express negative ideas about people they have never met
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
Personnel policies in the workforce that are based on seniority can have discriminatory
results in the present because in the past, members of minority groups and women were
excluded from specific occupations.
a. True
b. False
Reproductive rights and freedoms refer exclusively to abortion rights.
a. True
b. False
Milton Gordon suggests that there are eight major subprocesses of assimilation.
a. True
b. False
In general, what can we say regarding American Indian assimilation?
a. Their primary structural assimilation is comparatively high but secondary structural
assimilation is low.
b. Their primary structural assimilation is comparatively high and secondary structural
assimilation is high.
c. Their primary structural assimilation is comparatively low but secondary structural
assimilation is high.
d. Their primary structural assimilation is comparatively low and secondary structural
assimilation is low.
e. We don’t have enough data yet to make specific claims about American Indian
assimilation.
_________ is to race as __________ is to ethnicity.
a. White, black
b. Hispanic, white
c. African American, Cuban American
d. White, Cuban American
e. Cuban American, Puerto Rican
What are two general stereotypes of minority groups?
a. Extreme inferiority and social class
b. Extreme inferiority and power and status differences
c. Ethnic differences and exploitation
d. Exaggerated fear of higher intellect and physicality
Gay people are different in that by and large they can maintain invisibility.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following situations illustrates a double bind?
a. A man is ostracized for crying in public
b. A woman is labelled as irrational when she cries in public and labelled as cold when
she doesn”t
c. A masculine girl is harassed at school for wearing pink nail polish
d. A young male teacher becomes the school principal after teaching at the school for
only two years
Which of the following is an example of cultural heterosexism?
a. On the first day of school, Mr. Park asks his kindergarten students to describe their
mom and dad.
b. Almost one-quarter of the students in Mr. Park’s kindergarten class have a peanut
allergy.
c. The majority of girls at Park Elementary enjoy playing basketball at recess.
d. A survey of teachers at Park Elementary found that most disagree with Boy Scouts of
America’s policy against gay leaders.
Ethnic and racial group conflicts are especially intense when they coincide with class
divisions.
a. True
b. False
Hispanic Americans are an ethnic minority group, not a racial minority group.
a. True
b. False
Realtors no longer practice “racial steering” to maintain residential segregation patterns.
a. True
b. False
“People or groups who fail haven’t tried enough.” This statement would most likely be
made by a human capital theorist.
a. True
b. False
Compared to white women at the turn of the twentieth century, African American
women were:
a. Less likely to work outside the home
b. More likely to work outside the home
c. More likely to be employed in white-collar jobs
d. Better educated
e. More likely to vote
African American women are one of the least exploited groups in America.
a. True
b. False
Primary structural assimilation is greater for Hispanics than:
a. African Americans or American Indians
b. African Americans or Asian Americans
c. Jewish Americans or American Indians
d. African Americans or Italian Americans
Interracial marriages were illegal in some states in the United States until the late
1960s.
a. True
b. False
Unrest and violence in Ireland generally evolved from
a. Colonial British Rule
b. Religious conflict
c. Both of the above
d. None of the above
In Great Britain, improved retention rates and drastic reduction in unfilled positions was
a positive outcome of
a. marriage equality.
b. the integration of gays in the military.
c. National Coming Out Day.
d. the Don”t Ask, Don”t Tell policy.
In 1763, the British Crown declared American Indian tribes to be:
a. Extinct
b. Democracies
c. Allies against the French
d. Sovereign nations
e. Enemies of England
It is helpful to consider Asian Americans as one group because they are similar in
culture and language.
a. True
b. False
A good example of structural pluralism would be ______.
a. hospital services
b. Christian churches on Sunday morning
c. the south side of Chicago
d. immigrants learning English
Which of the following are documented ways slaves could express resistance or
non-cooperation to their situation and their “masters”?
a. Intentional carelessness
b. Creating work slowdowns
c. Running away
d. Open rebellion such as the revolt led by Nat Turner
e. All of the above
Which 1973 decision helped reduce the stigma attached to gays and lesbians?
a. The publication of Sappho’s poetry
b. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Sampson v. Gansevoort
c. The American Psychiatric Association’s removal of homosexuality from its list of
mental illnesses
d. Vassar college’s decision to allow the matriculation of homosexual women
Under Jim Crow, lynchings were imposed to enforce segregation, and during the period
from 1884 to 1900, there was an average of one lynching every other day.
a. True
b. False
What decade saw a reassertion of ethnicity and loyalty to old identities?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
Which of the following illustrates Marcus Hansen’s principle of third-generation
interest?
* a. The granddaughter of an Italian immigrant who attends catholic mass to reconnect
with her heritage.
b. An Irish man who organizes a labor union after immigrating to the United States.
c. A Jewish tailor who continues the family business after his father dies.
d. The new wife of a Polish immigrant who learns to make pierogis to please her
mother-in-law.
The two largest racial groups on the island of Hawaii are
a. Whites and Native Hawaiians.
b. Pacific Islanders and Whites.
c. African Americans and Samoans.
d. Asians and Japanese Americans.
The present status of the American Indians reflects:
a. The long bitter competition with the dominant group
b. Their colonized origins
c. Their lengthy exclusion from mainstream society
d. All of the above
e. None of the above