Ch. 5 Race Ethnicity and Families

Identify a true statement about marriage as a measure of family life in African Americans and whites

A substantial gap in the marriage rates of whites and blacks has appeared since the 1950s.

Identify a true statement about black family households.

African Americans are more likely to live in extended family households than the whites

During the 1970s, some African American men were reluctant to marry because they_______.

Feared that they could no provide for their families

Many Puerto Rican couple are in cohabiting relationships in which they consider themselves to be married but have never had religious or vivil marriage ceremonies. These relationships are known as

Consensual unions

How did Cuban immigrants use conjugal families after moving to the United States?

- As a means of accumulating the capital necessary to start a business -as a means of pooling the labor to start a business

Identify a true statement about migration of Cuban citizens in the United States

- They arrived with substantial amount of education, skills, and capital.

Identify an accurate statement about the intersectionality perspective song black families.

- it challenges the idea that there is an universal black experience shared by all African Americans.

Identity the possible reasons for the lower out-marriage rate for african american women

- it may reflect their preference for finding a partner within their racial-ethnic group - It may reflect the low rate at which white men approach them in dating markets.

What are the factors that affect the availability of suitable partners for young black women?

- unemployment - imprisonment

In the context of classical sociological theories of immigration, what was expected form Cuban immigrants to adjust better and prosper more in the United States?

-They were expected to disperse to disperse geographically in the United States -They were expected to learn English -They were expected to send their children to public schools

Women-centered kinship was part of the_______ repertoire of African American families

Cultural

According to a study of Census bureau data from the 1980s and 1990s an accurate statement about both African Americans and non- Hispanic whites is that ______.

The percentage of households headed by a married couple is directly related to the level of the household's income

Identify an accurate statement about prosperous African Americans that have long existed in the US.

The prosperity often resulted from the efforts of two-earner married couples.

Which of the following families is more common among Mexican American families than among other Hispanic Families

Two-parents, Single-earner familes

Horizontally-extended family

When a brother, sister, or cousin lives in a family as the household head

Vertically- extended family

When a parent, an uncle, or an aunt lives in a family as the household head

The extent to which the overlapping systems of class, racial, and gender-based disadvantage affect the lives of black women is called ________ of black women's situation.

intersectionality

The extent to which the overlapping systems of class, racial, and gender-based disadvantage affect the lives of black women is called ___________ of black women's situations

intersectionality

For American Indian tribes, _________ conferred an identity.

kinship ties

Middle-class black tend to live in neighborhoods that have ______ than the neighborhoods of low-income blacks.

less crime and poverty

____ are people who identify their race as white but do not think of themselves as Hispanic.

non-hispanic whites

The first wave of immigrants from Cuba came to the United States in a ______ migration.

political

People who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of ancestry, culture, and sometimes physical characteristics are known as a(n) _________ ___________ group.

racial - ethnic

People who share a common identity and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by virtue of ancestry, culture, and sometimes physical characteristics are known as _________-_______ group.

racial-ethnic

When African Americans face adversity, they tend to seek help from ______.

relatives

Middle-class black neighborhoods tend to be closer to poor black neighborhood because of________.

residential segregation

Among many immigrant groups, kinship ties provide a form of _______ that immigrants can used to obtain money needed to start an enterprise.

social capital

Identify the possible reasons for the lower out of marriage rate for African American women.

-it may reflect to low rate at which white men approach them in dating -it may reflect their preference for finding a partner within their racial- ethnic group.

Which of the following factors are likely to have contributed to the large difference in the assets between blacks and whites?

-value of homes in predominantly black neighborhood is low -whites are more likely to inherit some wealth -whites can obtain home mortgage loans from banks easily

Marriage-centered networks

Allow for the accumulation of resources by the husband-wife household

Women-centered networks

Allow for the maximum sharing of resources across predominantly single-parent households.

Identify an economically disadvantaged racial-ethnic groups in the United States.

American Indians

Which of the following categories has become an umbrella for an extremely diverse group of people who hall from nations as far apart as Japan and Pakistan?

Asian American

The process by which immigrant groups merge their culture and behavior with that of the dominant group in the host country is known as

Assimilation

Identity an accurate statement about the role of college education marriage rates of black women.

College educated black women are more likely to marry than are black women without college degrees.

In order to emphasize the orgins of white culture, some scholars prefer the label "________" to "white"

European American

T/F: African American families value marital ties more than whites

False

_____ play a stronger role in African American families compared to white families.

Grandparents

Which of the following labels lumps together recent immigrants with citizens whose families have been in the United States for generations, and lighter-skinned, well educated political emigres with darker skinned, poorly educated laborers looking for work?

Hispanic

Latino is an alternative term used for ___________.

Hispanics

_________ refer to persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to Latin America

Hispanics

The extend to which the overlapping systems of class, racial, and gender-based disadvantage affect the lives of black women is called _________ of black women's situation.

Intersectionality

Identify an accurate statement about the label "Hispanic"

It covers groups with diverse family patterns

Unlike white middle-class families, middle-class black families have _________.

Less money in assets

Identify an accurate statement about recent Mexican immigrants

Many Mexican immigrants are already married when they migrate to the United States.

Identify a true statement about African american young males.

Mass incarceration of black males removed them from the pool of eligiblies

________ households are more likely to be both horizontal and vertically extended than are non-hispanic white households.

Mexican origin

Compared to Western cultures, Asian cultures place more emphasis on ___________.

interdependence

According to the US Bureau of the Census, 2011a, _______ have higher unemployment and poverty rates than any other major Hispanic groups.

Puerto Ricans

Which of the following Hispanic groups is free to move to the mainland if they wish?

Puerto Ricans

Too many adults in Cuban families

Represented a drain on capital that could be used for a business

Too few children or the absence of a spouse

Resulted in insufficient labor or outside income for starting a business

Identify the type of kin network prevalent among the immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States

The marriage-centered kin network

Membership in a network of kin helps people to subsist because it allow

Share the burden of poverty

__________ ________ is the resources that a person can access through his or her relationships with other people.

Social capital

Identify an accurate statement about European families.

The families are dominated by the conjugal family of husband wife, and children

According to research studies, Identify an accurate statement about marriage trends in African Americans and whites since the 1950s

The likelihood of ever marrying has dropped much more for African Americans than for whites

An accurate statement about American Indians is that

Their families tend to be headed by an unmarried women

Escape from poverty is more difficult for African Americans in a network of kin because _________.

They have a risk if they withdraw from the network

An accurate statement about prosperous black women in the twentieth century is that _________.

They pioneered the ideology that women should combine marriage, careers, and community service.

Identify an accurate about African American women in the context of marriage and childbearing.

They tend to have children before marriage

Identify an accurate statement about the effects of the 1970s economic slowdown on the less-educated african american men.

They watched their economic prospects plummet

Among the economically disadvantage groups, the strongest family ties is often between _______.

a mother and her adult daughter

Identify a reason behind a high level of single-parent families among african americans.

high rates of childbearing outside of marriage

Throughout African American history, the ________ and the ________ have been the enduring institutions through which black families gained the strength to resist the oppression of slavery and discrimination.

church and family

T/F The marriage rates of college -educated black women solely reflect their class position.

false

T/F The racial gap between African American women and non-hispanic white women in non martial childbearing has been widening since 1950.

false

The African american women were not much affected by the post-1970s economic slowdown because they ________.

had established their position in the service sector

Julia a person of mixed parentage, is running for the post of governor in her state. During campaigns, she emphasized her Native American roots. She is challenged by the local Native American community who are concerned about her mixed heritage. However, over the course of her campaign the community rallies around her in support. This change in the society's position of Julia's racial identity shows that the racial categories people use are ______.

socially constructed

According to some observers, white men seek Asian-origin women because they are _________.

submissive, sexual, and stereotypically feminine.

Among the Mexican-origin population, the ages at marriage are low and the birthrates are high because of _______.

the family patterns of immigrants from Mexico.

The average number of children a women will bear overhear lifetime if current birthrates remain the sambas known as the

total fertility rate

The family support system of extended kinship networks provided by the history and culture of African Americans usually relied on _____.

women