InQuizitive Ch. 9

Place the historical events in chronological order.

1) The Supreme Court decides Plessy v. Ferguson. 2) Allied forces fight the racist regime of Nazi Germany. 3) The Supreme Court decides Brown v. Board of Education. 4) Mandatory busing is used to desegregate schools. 5) Integration of schools through compulsory busing is widely rejected as unacceptable.

Place the ethnicities on the timeline according to when they represented the largest foreign-born population in the United States.

1850-1900 = German and Irish 1930-1960 = Italian 1980-Present = Mexican

Institutional racism occurs when a seemingly race-neutral policy or social dynamic disadvantages minority groups. Identify the examples of institutional racism.

Example(s): - the phenomenon of "White flight," which holds down home values in predominantly Black neighborhoods - tax laws that ease the tax burden on the very wealthy - higher penalties associated with crack cocaine than with the powdered form - instituting "stop and frisk" policies, where police officers stop and search individuals they think are acting suspiciously Not Example(s): - businesses that have an unstated policy of avoiding hiring certain minorities in preference over other minorities

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage about a newly emerged form of racism.

Old-fashioned racism is based on the idea of [unchangeable] traits that make some people better than others. The new racism, called "[color-blind racism]," uses [race neutral] rhetoric; it blames the troubles of minority groups on their different [cultures].

Identify the problems that Native American communities struggle with today.

Problem(s): - high suicide rates - high mortality rates - elevated high school dropout rates Not Problem(s): - high migration rates

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage.

Reverend Minister Samuel Stanhope Smith's argument that dark skin was a(n) [universal freckle] conveyed his belief in [ontological equality]. A similar saying today would be that "race is only [skin deep]."

Identify the consequences of making everyone (Whites and others) more aware of Whiteness as a racial category.

Consequence(s): - It encourages some Whites to embrace White consciousness in racist fashion. - It removes the assumption that Whiteness is normal and non-whiteness is deviant. Not Consequence(s): - It reinforces White privilege. - It eliminates White privilege.

Identify the factors that contributed to the decline and near-disintegration of Native American cultures in North America, following the arrival of European explorers in the late fifteenth century.

Contributing Factor(s): - forced assimilation - disease - forced relocation - military technology Not Contributing Factor(s): - slavery

Identify the items as associated with either monogenism or polygenism.

Monogenism: - claims that all human beings are part of a single family tree - a view held by religious traditionalists - a view held by Darwinists Polygenism: - claims that humanity is composed of several distinct species

According to the interview with Kevin Lewis, what increases the likelihood that someone will initiate an interracial relationship through a dating app?

Someone of another race initiates contact with them on the app.

Identify the true and false statements about the eugenics movement.

True Statement(s): - Eugenics is a pseudoscience, long discredited among the scientific community. - Eugenics was used to support programs to control fertility and immigration to limit the presence of certain racial groups within the population. - Eugenicists contended that social, physical, and psychological traits were passed down within racial groups. False Statement(s): - Eugenics is an untested scientific theory. - Eugenics has been used to promote racial understanding and celebrate differences between racial groups.

Identify the true and false statements about race.

True Statement(s): - Race is a social construct. - Race is about bloodlines. False Statement(s): - Race is by definition always about differences in physical appearance. - Race is not real.

What was the racial atmosphere in the housing project where Dalton Conley grew up in the 1970s?

Whites were a marginalized group