Ethnic Studies Final
structural discrimination
patterns of discrimination built into social structures
1. In social and political debate, the ideal of color-blindness has pushed itself to the _____________ of the ideological debate.
periphery
Homophily
tendency for people to form social networks, including friendships, marriage, business relationships, and many other types of relationships, with others who are similar
1. An artistic depiction of American society that doesn't include nonwhites or any signs of racial domination is an example of what?
white aesthetic
1. Your textbook mentions films like Mississippi Burning, To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Hawk Down, and The Matrix. What common movie theme do these films present?
white savior themes
White Flight
working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs
society
A community of people who share a common culture
lynch mobs
In the 1890s, more than 1,400 African American men were lynched (hung by a mob without trial) by Southerns.
Caste System
a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society
1. The practice known as a "Mississippi appendectomy" is best described by which of the following?
a. a forced sterilization performed on a poor black woman in the South as practice for medical residents at teaching hospitals
1. 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:
a. all but completely eliminated the role of husband and father for most enslaved black men
1. In the 1800s, immigration rates among Asian men to the West Coast were much higher than immigration rates among Asian women. Many Asian men remained single due in part to a combination of these differential rates of immigration and:
a. antimiscegenation laws criminalizing interracial marriage and sex
1. What was the primary objective of cultural reeducation of American Indians?
a. force them to assimilate into Anglo-American society and culture
1. Though often forced to attend boarding schools run by Christian missionaries and later the federal government, American Indian students regularly resisted this "indoctrination into whiteness." Which of the following, as described in Chapter 7, is an example of such resistance?
a. performing important ceremonies in secret
hegemony
leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
Homophily
is a matter of pulling friends in
1. 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
Racism
Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
white collar crime
Nonviolent crime committed by individuals or corporations to obtain a personal or business advantage.
Ethnocentrism
belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group
two friends
biological determinism
sundown towns
communities where non-whites were systematically excluded from living
double consciousness
the division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities
cultural appropriation
the process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefit
Socialization
the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society
symbolic violence
the process whereby people of color unknowingly accept and support the terms of their own domination
1. When 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
