SOC100-03: Race and Ethnicity Quiz

Hispanic Americans have a wide range of backgrounds and nationalities; their segment of the U.S. population that self-identifies as Hispanic in 2013 was recently estimated at ________% of the total (U.S. Census Bureau 2014).

17%

Geographically, the Arab region comprises the Middle East and parts of Northern Africa (MENA). People whose ancestry lies in that area or who speak primarily Arabic may consider themselves

Arabs

________ is the unjust treatment of a category of people simply because they belong to that category while ________ is when someone has a preconceived opinion that isn't based on reason or experience

Discrimination; prejudice

When we speak of descent through such cultural backgrounds as Irish, Italian American, Russian, Jewish, and Serbian we are actually discussing

Ethnicity

________ describes shared culture, ancestry, nationality, or even religion.

Ethnicity

Which of the following theories would suggest that racial and ethnic inequalities must have served an important purpose in order to exist as long as they have?

Functionalism

________ immigrants were not initially victimized in the same way that other white immigrants were. They settled in ethnic enclaves and established roots. However in the run up to World War I, sentiment turned against them strongly.

German

There is no minority or majority group that fits easily in a category or that can be described simply, however white ethnic Americans are made up of many immigrants including:

German, Irish, Italian, and Eastern European immigrants.

Immigration from ________ and ________ continued well into the late 19th century and early part of the 20th century, at which time the immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to arrive in larger numbers.

Germany and Ireland

There are wide differences among the various origins that make up the Hispanic American population, as well as different names for the group itself. The 2010 U.S. Census states that ________ refers to a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.

Hispanic or Latino

Which theory suggests we cannot separate the effects of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other attributes when we examine the advantages and disadvantages of race?

Intersection theory

An irrational fear of or hatred against Muslims is called ________ and does not show signs of abating

Islamophobia

Later waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were also subject to intense discrimination and prejudice. In particular, the dominant group saw ________ immigrants as the dregs of Europe and worried about the purity of the American race.

Italian

________ immigration began in the 1880s. Many of these immigrants came to Hawaii to participate in the sugar industry; others came to the mainland, especially to agricultural pursuits in California.

Japanese immigrants

Almost any characteristic can be generalized based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation or other categories. When we generalize about people and separately categorize them, we are creating a

Stereotype

By 1705, Virginia passed which of these laws?

The slave codes which declared that any foreign-born non-Christian could be a slave, and be considered property

A societal privilege that benefits people who are white in a way that goes beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white individuals under the same societal, political, or economic circumstances is known as ________.

White privilege

________ refers to the theory that prejudice is embedded in our culture.

a culture of prejudice

The difference between the terms "Arab" and "Muslim" is that Arab refers to ________ and Muslim refers to ________.

an ethnicity; a religion

the process by which a minority individual or group abandons its own identity to take on the characteristics of the dominant culture, perhaps by absorbing immigrants from different lands?

assimilation

The ________ was characterized by boycotts, marches, sit-ins, and freedom rides as demonstrations by a subordinate group that would no longer willingly submit to domination.

civil rights movement

The belief that one skin tone is superior to another skin tone within a racial group is known as

colorism

________ are the second-largest Hispanic subgroup, and their history is quite different from that of other Hispanic groups. Their main wave of immigration to the United States started after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, and reached its crest with the Mariel boatlift in 1980.

cuban americans

what is the deliberate, targeted annihilation of a subordinate group?

genocide

Social scientists today maintain that when it comes to "race," it

is not biologically identifiable and racial categories have been arbitrarily assigned

Whether they are legal or illegal immigrants, because they have high population numbers, ________ are often the target of stereotyping, racism, and discrimination as well as being singled out for documentation checks by police officers. Simply not having appropriate documentation then, becomes a crime in states like Arizona.

mexican americans

________ form the largest Hispanic subgroup in the U.S. and also the oldest. Their immigration to the U.S. began in the early 1900s in response to the need for cheap agricultural labor. As workers, they would stay for a few years and then go back home with more money than they could have made in their country of origin.

mexican americans

A ________ would likely study ways the minority group in a society have been oppressed by laws and overt racism by the dominant society.

minority groups

Which group is the only non-immigrant ethnic group in the United States?

native americans

the ideal of the United States as a "salad bowl" where a mixture of different cultures is accepted and tolerated with each culture retaining its own identity and being valued equally with mutual respect on the part of all cultures, both dominant and subordinate?

pluralism

________ refers to the beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes someone holds about a group while ________ refers to actions against a group of people

prejudice; minority group

________ is a socially defined category based on physical differences between different groups of people.

race

the physical separation of two groups, particularly in residence, but also in workplace and social functions?

segregation

The term ________ can be used interchangeably with the term minority, while the term ________ is often substituted for the group that's in the majority.

subordinate group; dominant group

A symbolic interactionist would emphasize how ________ related to race and ethnicity could lead to racism.

symbols

This theory emphasizes the importance of interaction and communication between groups to reduce stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.

the contact hypothesis

Asian Americans certainly have been subject to their share of racial prejudice, despite the seemingly positive stereotype knowns as the________ because they appear to achieve significant educational, professional, and socioeconomic levels without challenging the existing establishment.

the model minority

The eradication of Native American culture continued until the 1960s, when Native Americans

were able to participate in and benefit from the civil rights movement

U.S. slavery continued for 150 years. Black Africans were kidnapped from their own lands and shipped to the New World on the trans-Atlantic journey called the Middle Passage. Slave codes declared that the child of a slave was a slave________.

which created the slave class in the United States.

White ethnic Europeans formed the second and third great waves of immigration from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. They joined the newly formed United States which was made up primarily of made up of _________________.

white Protestants from England