OLT 11 Race and Ethnicity

According to El-Najjar (2014), there were about-----million European Americans, constituting about------% of the population

198, 62

What's the percentage of Latinos who are living below the poverty line?

21.8%

According to El-Najjar (2014), there were about----- million African Americans, constituting about----% of the population

42, 13

According to El-Najjar(2014), which of the following racial groups has the least median family income?

African Americans

How early did Latinos become US citizens

After the Florida purchase of 1819 and the Mexican War of 1848

__________Americans have been stereotyped as the model numerical minority

Asian

According to El-Najjar (2014), which of the following racial groups had the highest median income, lowest poverty rate, and highest achievement in college education

Asian Americans

In terms of race, golfer Tiger Woods consider himself

Cablinasian

______ Americans came to the US first to work in the transcontinental railroad. However,_____ Americans came first as agricultural developers

Chinese, Japanese

What do Irish Americans, Mexican Americans, and Korean Americans represent?

Ethic groups

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order 9066, which authorized the establishment of internment camps for anyone with as little as one-eighth Japanese ancestry following Pearl Harbor, is an example of:

Expulsion

The largest numbers of European Americans claim descent from______, respectively

Germany, Ireland, and England

Which of the following is the second largest ethnic European group?

Irish Americans

The first immigrants who arrived to the New Worlds were ______ Americans

Native

1967's Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, a case which legally allowed interracial marriage, is an example of

amalgamation

Spanish European and Arab conquerors intermarried with Native Indians in Central and South American, creating the third race of Mestizos, which represented a form of a(n)_____

amalgamation

The concept pf race was social constructed

as an ideology to justify slavery and other forms of mistreatment of human beings

The US federal "wet foot/dry foot" policy allowed _____ immigrants, who reach the US, refugee status, protection, and social services

cuban

When discrimination is codified into laws, leading to racism, sexism, or ageism, it is referred to as _______ discrimination

de jure

Such late 19th signs as "Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply" represented

discrimination

Taking Native American children from their parents and teaching them in English, in government boarding schools was a form of_____

forced assimilation

Jennifer's uncle believes that racism and discrimination have made a positive impact on society- but only in the lives of those who are members of the dominant group. Which sociological perspective is Jennifer's uncle coming from?

functionalism

What the Tutsis experienced on the hands of the Hutus in Rwanda was an example of ______

genocide

The continuum f intergroup relations extends from the most inhumane end, or _____ to the most humane end, or ______

genocide, pluralism

According to research, African-Americans and Latinos were 60% more likely to be rejected for mortgages than whites with identical credit histories, This is an example of

institutional discrimination

________ is a philosophy or political policy that celebrates and encourages ethnic and racial variatin

multicultural pluralism

While biased thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and attitudes maybe referred to as ______, unfair treatment of members of a subordinate group maybe referred to as _____

prejudice, discrimination

The distribution of skin color around the world is best explained in relation to _____

proximity or distance from the equator

While European Americans represent a(n)_____ group, Cuban Americans represent a(n)_____ group

racial, ethnic

The Arizona Senate Bill 1070T aimed at targeting people of Mexican descent for scrutiny during recession, instead of confronting rulers who are responsible for it, is a form of:

scapegoating

_______ happens when numbers pf a social group blame members of anther social groups for bad things happening in society, but without a logical reason to do so

scapegoating

Scott believes that most people's racial beliefs are based on images conveyed in popular media since many people never meet members of certain races for themselves. Scott's perspective is:

symbolic interactionist

The term assimilation is defined by the text as:

the process by which a minority individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant culture