POLS2305 CH12-14

Despite talk of a post-racial era, racial inequality persists. What evidence does the text provide to support this argument?

Black and Hispanic families in the U.S. earned 59 percent and 71 percent, respectively, of the median white family. Black unemployment is twice that of whites, with 8.8 percent of black Americans unemployed in 2016, compared to 4.3 percent of whites. Black Americans and Hispancis are incarcerated at five times and 1.4 times the rate of whites. Correct! All of the above ALL OF THE ABOVE

Examples of civil rights include:

Freedom from discrimination

Republicans and Democrats disagreed over Central American children seeking to enter the U.S. (in mid-to-late 2014). The key issue was_____

Whether refugees would be granted asylum from persecution

What evidence is there that Americans want more government rather than less?

60 percent of Americans want greater federal funding for education

In 2016, _____ percent of Americans agreed consensual sex between gay and lesbian individuals should not be illegal.

68

Polling data shows that Americans support liberal-left policy issues including:

68 percent supported negotiations over war with Iran in 2015, in an effort to reach a broad nuclear agreement on prohibiting Iran from developing nuclear weapons 72 percent of Americans support a "standing U.N. peacekeeping force selected, trained, and commanded by the United Nations." In 2017, 53 percent of Americans opposed a Trump foreign policy that banned those immigrating from Muslim-majority countries Correct! All of the above ALL OF THE ABOVE

____percent of Trump supporters saw "sexism" as a "very big problem.

7

The difference between a right and a privilege is:

A privilege is something that must be granted while a right is something you have.

Negative freedom is the phrase used to describe

A set of rights that a liberal democracy is prohibited from doing against individuals.

Freedom of speech includes the spoken and written word, and symbolic speech. Examples include:

A t-shirt with the words "f*ck the draft" written on it.

Which of the following exemplifies liberal public opinion in America?

About two-thirds of Americans believe same-sex marriages should be legally recognized Three-quarters of Americans believe the U.S. should provide a path to legal status for unauthorized immigrants. More than half favor making gun control laws stricter Correct! All of the above. ALL OF THE ABOVE

In 2019, Trump declared a "national emergency" in order to redirect funds towards building a wall on the southern border. This "emergency" was based on which of the following facts?

Actually there was little empirical evidence to justify this "national emergency" as first-generation immigrants commit fewer crimes than second-generation or "native born" Americans. Further, unauthorized border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico fell to a 46-year low by 2017.

What is the "Lemon Test?"

All of the above since based on the 1971 case, Lemon v. Kurtzman, the Court ruled that public school resources could not be used to aid private religious schools.

There are competing explanations for ongoing racial inequality. What is the conservative claim?

An overly generous welfare state enables laziness and poverty among people of color.

Generally speaking, free-speech is protected when the issue is the threat of punishment from government. However, the U.S. seems to not protect free speech when it comes to___

Corporations stepping into individual's private lives and policing speech and expression

Every person who voted for Trump is strongly preoccupied with gender-based issues in America.

FALSE

Xenophobia refers to___________

Intense feelings of distrust, fear, or hatred against "foreigners."

Which court case declared that academic freedom is "fundamental to the function of society" and that the classroom was deemed a "marketplace of ideas?"

Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967)

If two-thirds of Americans in 2014 supported granting refugee status to children seeking to enter the United States, why did President Obama move to deport most of the 60,000 children?

Lack of political mobilization by U.S. voters

While most Americans initially supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a majority ____the war by the late 2000s.

Opposed

What evidence is there that Americans are primarily "center-right" in their ideological orientation?

Polls show that most Americans self-identify as "moderate-to-conservative" as evidenced by a 2016 Gallup poll where 72 percent of the public identified as wither conservative or moderate. In 2015, 57 percent said the deferral government "is almost always wasteful and inefficient," and 53 percent of Americans said they wanted a "smaller government" with "fewer services." IN 2016, 57 percent of Americans said the "amount of federal income tax" they paid was "too high." Fifty-one percent stated in the same year that "government regulation of business usually does more harm than good." Correct! All of the above ALL OF THE ABOVE

Americans are liberal-to-left in their beliefs, even if they do not admit it. On social and moral issues, Americans are split, often expressing conservative and liberal beliefs. But on economics and foreign policy, Americans are liberal (253).

TRUE

In Keyishian v. Board of Regents (1967), the Supreme Court declared states cannot punish or prohibit employees for joining the Communist Party.

TRUE

Much of the support for the Republican Party comes from middle- and middle upper-class Americans, more than from working-class and disadvantaged Americans.

TRUE

Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman argued in Manufacturing Consent that corporate, upper-class, and governmental interests seek to use the media and political propaganda to manipulate the public in favor of elite agendas.

TRUE

Recent surveys suggest that Americans are strongly liberal (253).

TRUE

The central claim of chapter 13 is that in the workplace and increasingly outside of it, freedom of speech and expression apply to the owners of business and major corporations, but not to their workers.

TRUE

In Morse v. Frederick (2007)

The Court ruled in favor of suppression of free speech Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that keeping students off drugs was more important than free speech The Court reviewed the suspension of students who carried a poster that read "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" during the 2002 Olympic torch relay event. Correct! All of the above ALL OF THE ABOVE

Examples of corporations enforcing speech codes and limiting the freedom and speech and expression of their workers include:

The story of a Philadelphia Eagles stadium employee who was fired after criticizing the team's player hiring via Facebook.

The United States is a strongly religious country, more religious than other wealthy countries. And high religiosity is associated with liberal thought (253).

false