What concept refers to a socially constructed category of people who share biologically transmitted traits that a society defines as important
What is race
100
Which of the following terms refers to the systematic killing of one category of people by another
What is genocide
100
Overall, Asian Americans represent what portion of the U.S. population
What is 5.1
100
the landmark 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that rejected the claim that black and white children could receive “separate but equal” schooling
What is Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas)
100
prejudice
What is pre-judging
200
Some sociologists who are critical of racial classification argue that dividing humanity into racial categories amounts to a strategy that
What is allows some people to dominate others.
200
terms refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people
What is segregation
200
On average, African American families earn what percentage of the amount that white families earn
What is 57 percent
200
In 2012, Hispanic Americans represented what percentage of the U.S. population
What is 16.9%
200
The most serious kind of prejudice is
What is racism
300
Which of the following concepts refers to a shared cultural heritage
What is ethnicity
300
In inner-city areas, where African American people have little contact of any kind with people in the larger society, Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton described which of the following in 1989
What is hypersegregation
300
Which group of people are descended from immigrants who were the first to settle in North America
What is Native Americans or American Indians
300
According to the government, which of the following is this country’s largest racial or ethnic minority
What is Hispanic Americans
300
Early in the twentieth century, Emory Bogardus developed the social distance scale to measure
What is prejudice directed at various minority categories
400
40. The remarkable racial and ethnic diversity of the United States is, most of all, a product of
What is immigration
400
Which of the following patterns refers to a society in which people of all racial and ethnic categories live with roughly equal social standing
What is pluralism
400
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which
What is forcibly relocated all people of Japanese ancestry to military camps in remote inland areas.
400
The term “Arab” is
What is an ethnic category
400
Racism at work in the operation of the economy, schools, hospitals, the military, and the criminal justice system is known as
What is institutional
500
A minority is defined as any category of people
What is that is physically or culturally distinctive and socially disadvantaged
500
When minorities—especially new immigrants—enter a society, they typically change their styles of dress, language, cultural values, and sometimes even their religion, in a process called
What is assimilation
500
Which population of Asian Americans has both the highest percentage of college graduates and the second-highest percentage of those living in poverty
What is Korean Americans
500
Many Arab Americans choose to downplay their ethnicity as a strategy to
What is avoid prejudice and discrimination
500
A Marxist analysis of race
What is Black and white workers at a factory fall into conflict, which weakens the power of workers to negotiate a new contract with the factory owners.