Chapter 3. Racial and Ethnic Inequality; Lecture: Race and Ethnicity

Items more likely to be on the exam are indicated with an asterisk

  1. race
  2. Marriage between people of different racial categories now accounts for about what portion of all marriages in the United States?
  3. *multi-racial births
  4. ethnicity
  5. The remarkable racial and ethnic diversity of the United States is, most of all, a product of what?
  6. minority
  7. In 2012, for the first time, most children born in the United States were what?
  8. *minorities, children under five
  9. genocide
  10. If current trends continue, minorities will together make up a majority of the entire U.S. population by when?
  11. segregation
  12. de facto segregation
  13. de jure segregation
  14. Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, hypersegregation
  15. assimilation
  16. pluralism
  17. the melting pot
  18. *people of African ancestry arrival in the Americas
  19. Which category of people are descended from immigrants who were the first to settle in North America?
  20. In 1776, the year the United States declared its independence from Great Britain, slavery was legal where?
  21. history of people of African ancestry in the Americas
  22. Jim Crow laws
  23. Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas)
  24. *On average, African American families earn what percentage of the amount that white families earn?
  25. Overall, Asian Americans represent what portion of the U.S. population?
  26. *Asian American population
  27. Executive Order 9066
  28. *Which category of Asian Americans has the highest percentage of adults who are college graduates?
  29. In 2014, Hispanic Americans represented what percentage of the U.S. population?
  30. *According to government statistics, which group is this country's largest racial or ethnic minority? second largest?
  31. The Latinos in America who are considered the most advantaged are who?
  32. The term "Arab"
  33. *The percentage of Arab Americans with a four-year college degree is what?
  34. Many Arab Americans choose to downplay their ethnicity because why?
  35. prejudice
  36. discrimination
  37. blaming the victim
  38. stereotype
  39. Emory Bogardus, social distance scale
  40. *Vincent Parrillo's recent investigations using the social distance scale
  41. institutional racism
  42. Public facilities, such as bus stations and hotels, were racially segregated in much of the United States until when?
  43. authoritarian personality theory
  44. scapegoat theory
  45. cultural theory
  46. multicultural theory
  47. W. Adorno
  48. *2003 decision, the United States Supreme Court, University of Michigan
  49. *Joan Albon's analysis
  50. Puerto Rican population in San Juan and New York, Oscar Lewis
  51. *oppositional culture
  52. *W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
  53. symbolic interaction analysis, race
  54. social-conflict analysis, unequal standing of various categories of people, the way society itself is organized
  55. *Marxist analysis of race
  56. Geoff claims to his friends that a desire to achieve and personal effort are the keys to people's social standing. These claims come closest to expressing which political viewpoint?
  57. *conservative criticism of affirmative action
  58. The liberal solution to racial and ethnic inequality focuses on what?
  59. *the radical left view, race
  60. *racial and ethnic demographics of California
  61. *According to the 2010 Census, what percent of Hispanics are white?
  62. *2010 Census, Hispanics, "some other race"
  63. *In a 2016 survey of admissions directors, what percent of private school admissions directors indicated that they believe Asian‐American applicants are held to higher standards at some colleges.
  64. *prejudice against African Americans by whites may when made aware of successful blacks
  65. *_____ percent of black Americans born into the middle quintile (with respect to income) fall into one of the two quintiles below as adults.
  66. *beliefs about reasons that some blacks have a harder time getting ahead
  67. *preference for same race neighbors