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