Chapter 6
considerable intragroup diversity
A major problem that Hispanics have encountered in grasping and wielding political power is their ______.
do not vote as often as would be predicted by their socioeconomic status
Barbour and Wright claim that a potentially surprising feature of Asian American political participation is that they ______.
pluralist
Barbour and Wright contend that the ______ model of democratic politics is the most relevant for understanding how American citizens have been able to claim and defend their rights.
True
The Supreme Court concluded in 1976 that age is a nonsuspect classification.
ending slavery as an American institution
Abolitionists were primarily interested in ______.
rights are power
According to Barbour and Wright, people deny rights to others because ______.
acceptable, so long as the policy is not tantamount to implementing a quota
According to Barbour and Wright, the Supreme Court contends that the use of racial diversity criteria in university admissions decisions is ______.
NAACP
According to Barbour and Wright, the civil rights group known as the _____ created the legal strategy that eventually dismantled the discriminatory Jim Crow system.
acted as a catalyst for the civil rights movement
An important consequence of the Brown decision was that it ______.
True
Citizens have frequently used interest groups to acquire and protect their rights.
are protected by a variety of constitutional amendments
Civil rights ______.
False
Colorado was the first state to grant women the right to vote.
were placed in internment camps, allegedly for national security reasons
During World War II, Japanese-Americans ______.
create a hostile work environment
For an incident to be classified as sexual harassment, it must ______.
Native American reservations have a separate legal existence under federal jurisdiction
Generally speaking, Native Americans have not been able to turn to state political entities for help in exercising their rights because ______.
universities may not use inflexible quotas in making admissions decisions
In the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) case, the Supreme Court stated that ______.
attempted to rebuild the South's economy
Reconstruction was the post-Civil War period in which the federal government ______.
separate public facilities for blacks and whites
Southern laws mandating segregation had the practical effect of creating ______.
was never ratified by the states
The Equal Rights Amendment ______.
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
The Supreme Court provided a relatively early victory for gay rights advocates as part of its decision in the case entitled ______.
False
The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) legitimized segregation in American public schools.
False
The minimum rationality test is used by courts to determine whether a law can discriminate on the basis of gender.
Korematsu v. US (1944)
The strict scrutiny test was formulated by the Supreme Court in ______.
institutionalized social power inequalities based on perceived racial differences
The term racism involves ______.
there is a reasonable basis for the law in question
Under the minimum rationality test, the government can discriminate against members of certain classes if it can demonstrate that ______.