Racial Formations
A) constant
B) evolving
C) static
what is evolving
Racial meaning and identities are...?
A) Constructed
B) Cool
C) Always accurate
What is constructed
For which group is ethnicity often considered "optional"?
A) White Americans
B) People of Color
C) Immigrants
What are White Americans
This concept involves treating someone unfavorably because he/she is of a certain race or because of personal characteristics associated with race.
For Black students, identity development is often complicated by this,
A) Gender discrimination
B) Racial discrimination
D) Economic disparity
What is racial discrimination
The key factor of education in undocumented youths determines the social mobility and impacts future opportunities in __________
A) Life
B) The Economy
C) The labor market
What is the labor market
How do state policies and institutions play a role in the creation and maintenance of racial formations?
A) Negligible
B) Active
C) Irrelevant
What is active
What is Racial etiquette?
A) Values and Moral beliefs
B) Sets of interpretative codes and Racial meanings
C) Assumed expectations towards a specific race
What is Sets of interpretative codes and Racial meanings
What does it mean when we say ethnicity is "socially constructed"?
A) Ethnicity is determined entirely by genetics
B) Social context shapes how we identify with ethnicity
C) Ethnicity remains fixed regardless of society
What is Social context shapes how we identify with ethnicity
This is the feeling of being forced to choose one identity over another, or to conform to stereotypes about a specific racial group. This pressure can be caused by a variety of factors.
A) Academic pressure
B) Family pressure
C) Racial identity pressure
What is racial identity pressure
This supreme court ruling ensures that undocumented children have the right to K-12 education.
A) Plyler v. Doe (1982)
B) Public Schooling
C) Role of Education
What is Plyer v. Doe (1982)
How do racial formations function within context of power?
A) Marginalize
B) Liberate
C) Reinforce
What is reinforce
What determines our "presentation of self"?
A) rules shaped by our perception of race
B) When you look good
C) When you want to be perceived in a certain way by society
What is rules shaped by our perception of race
What is a key privilege that white Americans may experience in regard to ethnicity?
A) They must always identify with a single ethnic background
B) They can choose when to engage with their ethnic identity
C) They are discouraged from expressing any ethnic identity
What is They can choose when to engage with their ethnic identity
This can be the first time many Black students experience overt racism, especially those from upper-middle-class backgrounds in predominantly White neighborhoods.
A) At a university
B) In their first job
C) In highschool
What is at a university
This state remains the biggest home to the largest undocumented immigrant population in the country
A) California
B) Texas
C) Florida
What is California
In relation to racial formation, the role of the media primarily functions to...
A) normalize
B) Distribute
C) Obscure
What is normalize
The Racial category "black" evolved with...
A) The consolidation of Racial slavery
B) Civil rights movement
C) Jim Crow
What is The consolidation of Racial slavery
How is ethnicity typically experienced by people of color (according to our Ore book)?
A) As something flexible and optional
B) As a label they can choose to ignore
C) Ascribed by society, often limiting personal choice
What is Ascribed by society, often limiting personal choice
These types of incidents, such as drunken students yelling slurs or being unfairly treated by campus employees, are examples of racial discrimination Black students might experience.
A) Campus protests
B) Racial incidents
D) Housing disputes
What is racial incidents
This Prevents Schools from releasing any information from students' records to immigration authorities, making school a protected space in which undocumented status has little to no negative effect.
A) The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
B) Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
C) Protected vs. Unprotected Status
What is The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Ore critiques the essentialist view of race. Which of the following best encapsulates this critique?
A) Racial categories are stable and rooted in biology
B) Race is a social construct category that changes overtime
C) Racial categories are soley determined by culture in history
What is Race is a social construct category that changes overtime
How is race utilized?
A) To provide a means of identifying and categorizing a person
B) To indicate genetic patterns
C) To biologically categorize a person
What is To provide a means of identifying and categorizing a person
What impact does the privilege of "optional ethnicities" have on society, according to our ore book?
A) It reinforces social divisions and inequalities
B) It creates complete equality across ethnic groups
C) It has no effect on social relationships or hierarchies
What is It reinforces social divisions and inequalities
What is a major factor contributing to racial tension between students on college campuses?
A) Lack of university support for multicultural programs
B) Pre-existing stereotypes and misunderstandings
C) The academic pressures students face
What is Pre-existing stereotypes and misunderstanding
The phrase underscores that documented and undocumented categories do not adequately capture the gray areas experienced by many migrants.
A) Liminal legality
B) Legality
C) Transitions to Illegality
What is Liminal legality