InQuizitive SOC 210 - Chapter 8

Sociologists accept the notion that race has an objective or scientific meaning but also seek to understand why race continues to play such a critical role in society.

False

After "White, non-Hispanic" (62.6 percent of the U.S. population) which is the next-largest ethnic category in the United States?

Hispanic or Latino

Which of the following immigrant groups were once not considered white but are now?

Irish Italians Jewish

Identify the true and false statements about the social construction of race.

The concept of passing suggests race is socially constructed. Sociologists understand race as a social rather than a biological category. The definition of race changes over time as racial categories are contested and developed.

Race is more meaningful to us on a social level than it is on a biological level.

True

Rachel Dolezal's story highlights which aspect(s) of race?

cultural appropriation, passing, the social construction of race

Place each author's major book about race in order of publication from first to last.

declining significance of race racial formation in the US Racial faultlines

According to diversity training studies, which of the following leads to increases in managerial diversity?

efforts to establish responsibility for diversity

Identify the factors that contributed to the decline and near-disintegration of Native American cultures in North America following the arrival of European explorers in the late fifteenth century.

forced assimilation population transfer disease

What have modern scientists discovered about race?

the have disvoered that the lines among race are blurry rather than fixed

Place each racial/ethnic category in the United States in order of its percentage of individuals without health insurance from lowest to highest.

whites, asians, blacks, hispanics

In what year were Americans first given the opportunity to identify with more than one race in the U.S. Census?

2000

The term "double-consciousness" was coined by which famous sociologist?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Drag each racial/ethnic group label to the appropriate place on the figure that represents that group's share of the U.S. population.

White, non Hispanic: 61.3% Black or African American: 13.3% Hispanic or Latino: 17.8% Asian: 5.7%

As your textbook indicates, a number of scholars have written about racial privilege including -and Peggy McIntosh. McIntosh likens white privilege to a(n) -; it is something that one group benefits from while mostly being unaware of it. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva suggests that -, or the attempt to make race invisible and inconsequential, is just a new form of racism.

W.E.B. Du Bois Invisible Knapsack Color Blindness