CH 09 - RACE

Michelle is doing a school project that involves visiting a local mosque and interviewing Muslims about their everyday life experiences in Indiana. What advice would Jen'nan Read likely give to Michelle?

Don't confuse ethnicity and religion, wrongly assuming that "Muslim" and "Arab" are one and the same.

Which act formalized the exclusive definition of whiteness by imposing immigration restrictions based on a national origins quota system that limited the yearly number of immigrants from each country?

Immigration Act of 1924

Samuel is a white Christian minister in 1830. Like most of his contemporaries, he believes in the biblical "curse of Ham." This means that when Samuel sees an African American, he sees:

a descendent of Ham, the original black man who was set apart as cursed.

During the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many black people moved north to escape Jim Crow laws in the rural South. This resulted in:

competition for housing and employment in the North, resulting in violent clashes between white and black people.

Phrenology was an early-twentieth-century pseudoscientific approach that claimed people's intelligence, capacities, and race could be identified by examining:

differences in head formation.

America's first naturalization law, passed in 1790, granted citizenship to:

free white persons.

In the modern United States, people see physical markers such as hair type or skin color and think of race. In ancient Egypt, physical markers were seen as linked to:

geography.

Japanese internment camps resulted in:

greater wealth for white Americans.

The concept of race:

has changed over time and varied across societies.

Which group believed that humans were one species, united under God?

monogenists

Christoph Wilhelm Lucht is an American living in Chicago during World War I. Concerned about discrimination against German Americans, he makes choices that will help his family survive. Sociologists call his strategy "passing," citing as an example his choice to:

name his daughter Jane and to be happy when she marries and changes her last name to Jones.

Under Johann Caspar Lavater's theory of ________, people with light skin were thought to have higher intellect.

physiognomy

Which group believed that different races were distinct species?

polygenists

When Shelly, a white American, sees a Middle Eastern man, she worries that he may be a terrorist. She would never say this and would never take action on these thoughts, but nonetheless, they come into her mind. Despite her commitment to fair treatment, she is harboring:

prejudice

In 1942, 120,000 Japanese Americans were sent by federal order to internment camps. Afterward, all Asian Americans (regardless of their country of origin and/or U.S. citizenship status) went from being a relatively unnoticed group to being singled out for discrimination. This is an example of:

racialization.

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson upheld:

segregation.

The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education struck down what doctrine?

separate but equal

Nazis identified Jews as a "race," and race was believed to be biological. Nonetheless, Jews were forced to wear a yellow Star of David because:

there was no reliable physical indicator of this supposed "race."

During European colonialism, ethnocentrism classified whites as normal, and nonwhites as abnormal and inferior, to help justify:

unequal treatment and conquest.

According to Peggy McIntosh (1988), which of the following statements about "being white" is most accurate? If you are white,

you don't have to think much about your racial identity.