History
True or False? When Africans arrived in America in 1619, before the Mayflower, they were slaves.
(They were free until forty years later when the need for cheap labor increased with America's rapid expansion)
The year African-Americans were legally given the right to vote in the United States.
What is 1965? (293) [yes this is not a typo]
EEOC's 2016 statistics reveal that at _______% race remains the number one type of discrimination claim being filed with the agency after retaliation.
What is 35.3%? page 277
This case was where a black delivery driver for Dominos was fired for not abiding to a grooming code - of shaving. He claimed it was too painful for him to shave. This case is known as ...
What is the "no-beard" case? (Bradley v. Pizzaco of Nebraska, Inc., d/b/a Domino's Pizza) page 301
Discrimination against whites is called
What is reverse discrimination? page 288
Slavery lasted for how long in America?
What is for over 200 years? Page 292
The landmark Supreme Court decision that began the dismantling of segregation in public schools.
August 2016 Gallup Minority Rights and Relations Survey found that a majority of Americans _____% say racism is widespread.
What is 61%? page 279
In addition to being liable for racial discrimination under Title VII, the employer can also be liable for racial _________.
What is racial harassment? page 303
True or False? The term "boy" used in reference to black employees is enough to prove workplace discrimination?
What is True?
In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the term "boy" used by white managers at an Alabama Tyson Foods plant to refer to black employees could, alone, be used as evidence of workplace race discrimination. The term is one used in the slave and Jim Crow era to refer to black men.
This was an actual "medical condition" doctors ascribed to slaves who wanted to run away and be free.
What is "drapetomania"? page 292
This is listed first in the prohibited categories of Title VII and is the main reasons for passage of the law.
What is Race? page 277
Latina women receive only ____ cents per dollar that a non-Hispanic white males make, or $23,298 less per year than non-Hispanic white men.
What is 55 cents? Page 277
To hold an employer liable for racial harassment, the employee must show that the harassment was....
What is 1) unwelcome, 2) based on race, 3) so severe or pervasive that it altered the conditions of employment. and creative and abusive environment, and that 4) there is a basis for imposing liability on the employer? page 303
In a claim of reverse discrimination, the ultimate burden of persuasion remains always on the _____?
What is the Plaintiff?
The Slave Codes (laws) were later renamed to ______ _______ after the Civil War.
What are the Black Codes? page 293
Asians being locked out of full advancement in the workplace.
What is bamboo ceiling? page 296
A landmark case where racial discrimination occurred against whites (who are equally protected under Title VII)
What is McDonald v. Santa Fe Transportation? page 299
After slavery ended, this was used to determine if you were excluded from things like entry to schools to social organizations.
What is the paper bag test? page 305
True or False? Color is a protected category under Title VII
What is True? page 306-307
Title VII prohibits employment discrimination because of "color" as a basis separately listed in the statute. The statute does not define "color." The courts and the Commission read "color" to have its commonly understood meaning—pigmentation, complexion, or skin shade or tone. Thus, color discrimination occurs when a person is discriminated against based on the lightness, darkness, or other color characteristic of the person.
What is testify? page 293
The concept of denying full participation to minorities and women in the workplace.
What is the glass ceiling? Page 300
In 2015 the median income for black households was _____ % of whites.
What is discrimination against a subgroup of persons in a racial group because they have some certain attributes in addition to their race.
What is "race plus" discrimination? page 288
The National Survey of Black Americans across the country published in the American Journal of Sociology found that "the fairer one's pigmentation, the higher his or her occupational standing". On average they found that lighter complexioned blacks made ____ % higher income than darker African Americans.