Inquisitive Chapter 9: Race

Isaacs and Geertz

the observation that ethnicity is fixed and remains part of the thinking of even well-assimilated groups

Identify the Correct and Incorrect Statements about race: a) race is not real b) race is a social construct c) race is by definition always about differences in physical appearance d) race is about bloodlines

Correct: b and d Incorrect: a and c

Identify the examples of collective resistance: a) An oppressed group rises up in an organized, armed rebellion. b) An oppressed group engages in a campaign of nonviolent protest c) An oppressed group develops a means of quietly coping with their circumstances d) An oppressed group relocates to a place where they can live in peace

Examples: a, b Not examples: c, d

What is the single largest ethnic group in the United States today?

German Americans

An 1851 article in Harper's Weekly described a certain racial group as having a "small and somewhat upturned nose" and skin with a "black tint." Which racial group was the article referring to?

Irish Immigrants

What is the origin of the word "Caucasian"

It refers to people who lived on the slopes of mountains in the country of Georgia

Identify the reasons why residential segregation is such a serious social problem: a) It's hard to change or prevent b) It fosters a culture of segregation c) There is no remedy for laws mandating residential segregation d) It leads to other forms of segregation

Reasons: a, b, d Not Reasons: c

What was the racial atmosphere in the housing project where Dalton Conley grew up in the 1970s?

Whites were a marginalized group

Which line does Lee say is replacing the white-black divide?

a black-non black divide

Park and Gordon

a model in which immigrant groups go through a multistep process that ends with full assimilation

Glazer and Moynihan

an understanding of ethnicity as a fluid and circumstantial construct, used for social leverage as needed

When, during World War II, Japanese American families were given notice of their mandatory relocation to internment camps, how much time were they given to dispose of their lands and other property?: a) three months b) six months c) one week d) one month

c

Robert Park developed the straight-line model of assimilation, later refined by Milton Gordon. Order the steps of a newly arrived immigrant becoming fully assimilated, according to Gordon.

cultural assimilation, structural assimilation, marital assimilation, identification assimilation, attitude reception assimilation, behavior reception assimilation, civic assimilation

Pluralism

engaged coexistence of distinct racial or ethnic groups

Segregation

involuntary separation of groups by legal or social means, based on race or ethnicity

In the 1940s, Gunnar Myrdal studied white Americans who had reservations about full equality and integration for blacks. What did Myrdal find was most important to these whites?

maintaining distance between the races in personal relationships, especially marriage

Assimilation

merging into the larger culture and shedding one's separate identity

What, according to Nell Irvine Painter, is the foundation of white identity?

not thinking about being white