Diversity chapter 4

20. The Black population is about

13.5% of the U.S. population

11. In a study on employment and earnings of native and immigrant Blacks and Whites,

African-born Blacks had higher educational levels than native-born Blacks.

Which of the following statements about the education, employment, and/or earnings of Blacks/African Americans is true?

Black unemployment is higher than the unemployment of every other racial/ethnic group at the same educational level.

10. Regarding employment of Black women,

Black women who work for unionized firms earn more than Black women who work for non-unionized firms.

Which of the following statements about the education and earnings of Blacks/African Americans is true?

Different educational levels between Blacks and Whites do not completely explain the Black/White earnings gap.

. Regarding involuntary servitude in the United States

During the same time that Africans were first sold in the U.S., Whites were also held as indentured servants.

13. Which of the following statements is not true about sexual harassment of Black women?

Early on Black women were likely to be overrepresented in cases of sexual harassment brought against organizations, but are not currently overrepresented.

19. Black women are less likely to be participating in the workforce than White women are.

False

23. Access discrimination occurs when people are employed, but treated differently after employment.

False

25. When access discrimination occurs, its targets are likely to be aware that it has occurred.

False

26. Researchers estimate that about 35% of business establishments have no minority workers.

False

30. Aversive racism continues to affect Black applicants and employees but not customers.

False

31. Underemployment refers to when very few minorities are able to find a job.

False

32. When Black parents engage in racial socialization, they usually decrease the ability of their Black children to handle discrimination in an effective manner.

False

33. Evidence suggests that employers need to attend more to access discrimination because there is little treatment discrimination in organizations.

False

7. Glass ceilings and glass walls are likely to be strengthened by all of the practices below except:

Providing mentoring opportunities for women and minorities to take on positions involved with finance.

12. "New racism"

The belief that Blacks have attained excessive, unfair gains through programs such as affirmative action.

18. Blacks who are high school graduates are about twice as likely to be unemployed as White high school graduates.

True

21. Legally sanctioned (or mandated) discrimination and segregation persisted for decades after the end of slavery.

True

22. On some military bases in the South, Black soldiers had to drink from separate water fountains for "colored" people while White soldiers and German prisoners of war drank from the fountains for Whites.

True

24. Underemployment can affect the quality of a person's future employment.

True

27. As Whites are more likely to be managers than Blacks, the similarity effect tends to advantage White employees.

True

28. Lack of job autonomy and advancement at work have been associated with stress and high blood pressure for Blacks.

True

29. The first U.S. Federal law regarding the citizenship of immigrants allowed only White men to become citizens.

True

34. Removing name and sex-identifying information from resumes may be helpful in reducing discrimination.

True

35. About 8% of the foreign-born population in the U.S. is Black and these immigrants Blacks are often perceived to be native born.

True

17. Which of the following is true of the Black population?

Underutilization of Blacks' skills at work contributes to their illness and early death.

Differences in Black/White accumulation of wealth are not influenced by

compulsory mortgage loan approvals credit-worthy Blacks.

14. Discrimination against customers

has negative effects on organizations' ability to market to diverse customer groups.

5. In empirical research on access to employment, researchers found that

having higher quality resumes did not increase the number of callbacks for Black applicants.

8. Glass walls are

horizontal barriers that confine minorities and women to certain positions within organizations.

16. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

included lunch counter sit-ins that college students organized.

15. In a study of car pricing, researchers found

race and sex were related to initial offer prices and to the final prices offered testers.

9. Harry Holzer's research investigating the relationships between firm size and employment hiring practices indicates that:

small companies hire much smaller percentages of Black employees than larger companies do.

6. In research involving matched pairs of Black and White applicant testers to investigate the effects of having a criminal record on job search outcomes,

the negative effect of having a criminal record on employment opportunities was 40% larger for Blacks than for Whites.