Race in America: Chapter 10

In 1930s America, economic pressures resulted in which of the following impacts for nonwhite families?

programs forced repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico

Consider the trend in American attitudes about interracial marriage. From 1968 to 2008, the percentage of Americans favoring interracial marriage

quadrupled.

Whites are least likely to marry outside their

race

Throughout the 1900s, American families were remade and gender dynamics continued to change. Which of the following events helped bring more equality to American families during this time?

Great Depression

The practice known as a "Mississippi appendectomy" is best described by which of the following?

a sterilization performed on a poor black woman in the South without her consent

Because in many cases a man who lived as a slave could not stop his master from beating his son or raping his daughter, fatherhood under slavery was denied in a way that

all but completely eliminated the role of husband and father for most enslaved black men.

Which of the following is a central explanation for why African Americans are disadvantaged regarding marriage, compared to whites and Latinos?

Black men are unemployed at higher rates than white and Latino men.

In the 1800s, immigration rates among Asian men to the West Coast were much higher than immigration rates among Asian women, as Asian women were not allowed to immigrate to the United States during this time. Many Asian men remained single due in part to a combination of these differential rates of immigration and

antimiscegenation laws criminalizing interracial marriage and sex.

Data from a study of contemporary Internet dating showed that the group of women most likely to engage in an interracial marriage was

heterosexual Asian women.

If you hear a black man today saying that some black women are "too bossy," he may be unconsciously referring to

the stereotype of the "black matriarch."