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