Chapter 3. Racial and Ethnic Inequality; Lecture: Race and Ethnicity
Items more likely to be on the exam are indicated with an asterisk
- race
- Marriage between people of different racial categories now accounts for about what portion of all marriages in the United States?
- *multi-racial births
- ethnicity
- The remarkable racial and ethnic diversity of the United States is, most of all, a product of what?
- minority
- In 2012, for the first time, most children born in the United States were what?
- *minorities, children under five
- genocide
- If current trends continue, minorities will together make up a majority of the entire U.S. population by when?
- segregation
- de facto segregation
- de jure segregation
- Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, hypersegregation
- assimilation
- pluralism
- the melting pot
- *people of African ancestry arrival in the Americas
- Which category of people are descended from immigrants who were the first to settle in North America?
- In 1776, the year the United States declared its independence from Great Britain, slavery was legal where?
- history of people of African ancestry in the Americas
- Jim Crow laws
- Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas)
- *On average, African American families earn what percentage of the amount that white families earn?
- Overall, Asian Americans represent what portion of the U.S. population?
- *Asian American population
- Executive Order 9066
- *Which category of Asian Americans has the highest percentage of adults who are college graduates?
- In 2014, Hispanic Americans represented what percentage of the U.S. population?
- *According to government statistics, which group is this country's largest racial or ethnic minority? second largest?
- The Latinos in America who are considered the most advantaged are who?
- The term "Arab"
- *The percentage of Arab Americans with a four-year college degree is what?
- Many Arab Americans choose to downplay their ethnicity because why?
- prejudice
- discrimination
- blaming the victim
- stereotype
- Emory Bogardus, social distance scale
- *Vincent Parrillo's recent investigations using the social distance scale
- institutional racism
- Public facilities, such as bus stations and hotels, were racially segregated in much of the United States until when?
- authoritarian personality theory
- scapegoat theory
- cultural theory
- multicultural theory
- W. Adorno
- *2003 decision, the United States Supreme Court, University of Michigan
- *Joan Albon's analysis
- Puerto Rican population in San Juan and New York, Oscar Lewis
- *oppositional culture
- *W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
- symbolic interaction analysis, race
- social-conflict analysis, unequal standing of various categories of people, the way society itself is organized
- *Marxist analysis of race
- 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?
- *conservative criticism of affirmative action
- The liberal solution to racial and ethnic inequality focuses on what?
- *the radical left view, race
- *racial and ethnic demographics of California
- *According to the 2010 Census, what percent of Hispanics are white?
- *2010 Census, Hispanics, "some other race"
- *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.
- *prejudice against African Americans by whites may when made aware of successful blacks
- *_____ percent of black Americans born into the middle quintile (with respect to income) fall into one of the two quintiles below as adults.
- *beliefs about reasons that some blacks have a harder time getting ahead
- *preference for same race neighbors