SOC 3133 (Set 1)
Between 1880 and 1930, lunch mobs murdered how many black people?
2300
Robert Putnam, the author of the modern classic Bowling Alone, argues which of the following about American civil society?
Americans' participation in civil society is a way to gauge how trustful and connected we are to one another, and by those indicators, American civil society is in trouble
When George Wallace, Democratic governor of Alabama, stood in 1963 on the steps of the University of Alabama to block the entrance of two black students to the all-white university, he taught politicians two strategic lessons. The first was that politicians who opposed racial justice could garner great support from white voters. What was the second?
Politicians can support white supremacy as long as they do not so explicitly
President Kennedy coined the phrase "a rising tide lifts all boats" to refer to political preference of universal, rather than race-based, policies as a strategy to eradicate inequality. Which policy reflects that strategy?
President Obama's advocating universal health care to combat race-based health disparities
Hillary Clinton's remarks during the 2008 presidential primaries, in which she stated that "hardworking white Americans" were supporting her and not Senator Obama, was an example of?
Racial Dog Whistling
What was the famous march in which activists walked along a stretch of land in which no black people were registered to vote?
Selma-to-Montgomery March
Schools in Yazoo City, Mississippi, dedicated $245 per white child for educational expenses and only $3 per black child in the late 1950s, illustrating what?
Separate schools were anything but equal
Well into the mid-twentieth century, white planters gave blacks a small piece of land on which to grow crops and live. In return, blacks gave white planters a portion of their crops. This is called what?
Sharecropping
According to figure 9.1, the group experiencing the lowest growth in membership in the independent order of the odd fellows following the Civil War was:
Southern whites
Ella Baker referred to the nitty-gritty, tiresome, and unglamorous labor of chipping away at the white power structure day by day and door to door as what?
Spadeword
The collection of organizations and people who carried out political acts aimed at abolishing racial segregation, nonwhite disenfranchisement, and economic exploitation is called what?
The Civil Rights Movement
What is an example of an association within civil society?
The Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter
The lack of white support for the busing system during this time is an example of what sociologists call:
The Florida Effect
What was one of the differences between the UNIA and the NAACP
The UNIA placed women in positions of leadership; the NAACP did not
The NAACP was banned in several Southern states after refusing the release the contact information of its members. What was the effect of the weakening of the NAACP? With the weakening of the NAACP, the Civil Rights Movement shifted its focus from legal action to which kind of action?
The movement grew to include people like sharecroppers, teachers, students, and even children
What was the purpose of "grandfather clauses"
They extended the right to vote to those whose relatives were enfranchised before the end of the Civil War, namely whites
Why did Democrats begin mirroring Republicans in their approach to racial politics?
They feared compensatory programs, such as affirmative action, would fracture the Democratic Party
What do Emmett Till, Charlie Lang, Ernest Green and Henry Bedford all have in common?
They were all victims of white terrorism
In 2015, thirteen students were arrested at the University of Minnesota when they conducted a sit-in at the president's office in an attempt to protest the lack of diversity in the faculty. These protestors most clearly followed in the tradition of which group?
Third World Liberation Front
What was the name of the multiracial organization founded on the campuses of the University of California-Berkeley and San Francisco State College, which challenged there campuses' Eurocentric curricula?
Third World Liberation Front
What were the two goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's 1964 Freedom Summer?
Voter registration and quality education
What was the name of the policy that prohibited voter discrimination, outlawed literacy tests, and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registration?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The American Indian movement attempted to organize against federal "Indian movement attempted to organize against federal "Indian Termination" policies. What was the effect of these policies?
When tribes lost federal recognition, they also lost federal aid and land rights
____ have higher rates of civic engagement and civil participation; _____ less likely to join voluntary associations or participate in community activities
Whites; people of color
Who are Willie Horton and Lee Atwater?
Willie Horton was used in a political campaign thought up by Lee Atwater that helped George HW Bush win the presidency in 1988
In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey advocated a black nationalism movement that can be described as:
a movement seeking power for blacks in the form of black-owned businesses and black-run government and military
In the mid-1950s, civil rights organizing shifted away from a ____ organization and toward a focus on _____ groups?
bureaucratic; community-based
Over the past 100 years, social capital and civic engagement in the United States has
decline dramatically
What is one thing that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed?
discrimination on the basis of race in restaurants
African American fraternal lodges and federations (such as the Masons)
nurtured African American solidarity and supported many instances of civil rights advocacy
Immigrant organizations often aim to help with adjustment to American society. For example, organizations such as the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and the Chinese-American Planning Council:
oversee English-language classes, career training, and cultural events
Which of the following best describes a way that the textbook discusses "identity politics"?
political action intended to address the unique interests and hardships of groups who have faced oppression
What served as the institutional hub of Civil Rights Movement?
the church
What is "boundary work"?
the collection of practices by which people maintain or challenge racial relations of exclusivity or inclusivity
What part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was Ella Baker critical of?
the style of charismatic (masculine) leadership
Contemporary welfare programs tend to focus on changing individual behavior -- teaching clients to be more responsible, productive workers -- rather than on addressing systemic inequality. This represents what?
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report, The Negro Family
Cesar Chavez, on of the most important Mexican American activists, led the 1965 Delano grape strike. What was the purpose of this action?
Gaining better wages for grape workers
The term we use to describe the cause of strong racial variation in civic participation is
Homophily
What is the significance of the fact that the Women's Political Council had first conceived of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and had been planning it for months?
In popular historical accounts, the faces of the Civil Rights Movement typically belong to men
According the textbook, which of the following is the most accurate statement about "political correctness"?
It is designed to minimize offense to marginalized groups, censoring certain speech deemed off-limits
Which of the following was a success of black nationalism?
It made many black people feel more proud of their African American identity
What was one of the outcomes of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
It organized the black clergy as a political force
In 1960, what percentage of Mississippi's black adults was registered to vote?
Less than 2 percent
How did the white public justify the existence of lynch mobs?
Lynch mobs supposedly kept white women safe from black male rapists
The mastermind and primary spokesperson for the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was:
Marcus Garvey
Figure 3.2 shows that the largest change in the voting gap between blacks and whites occurred in
Mississippi
By the end of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's 1964 Freedom Summer, many volunteers had been violently attacked, arrested, and even killed, indicating what?
Mississippi was still a very dangerous place for black Americans in 1964
Which dominant black protest organization, preceding the modern Civil Rights Movement and was founded in 1909 by black and white intellectuals, primarily battled racial domination in the courts?
NAACP
The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, in which protestors demanded the island be released for the explicit development of Indian education, lasted how long?
Nineteen months
In his book Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney Lopez describes three important "moves" of racial dog whistling. Newt Gingrich's denial that his frequent references to President Obama as the "food stamp president" had any racial basis is an example of which of these three moves?
A punch that jabs race into the conversation through thinly veiled references to threatening nonwhites
