Week 2

Which of the following African American sociologists was accused by the FBI of being communist due to their research on racial inequality?

All of the above W. E. B. DuBois E. Franklin Frazier

American Sociologists have always been critical of the eugenics movement.

False

During the first half of the twentieth century, sociological research focused on race at the expense of ethnicity.

False

Scientific research on race has historically been objective and unbiased.

False

The epidemic of violence directed at LGBTQ people of color is an example of _________, because it is more than homophobia and transphobia; it is racialized homophobia and transphobia.

Intersectionality

Which of the following groups would NOT be considered a colonized or involuntary minority according to Blauner's theory of internal colonialism?

Irish Americans

This sociologist introduced the idea of the collective forgetting, what a culture ignores or suppresses about its past. He argues this is a major aspect of the white racial frame.

Joe Faegin

Sociologists focus on patterns rather than rarities, but there will always be deviations from the norm.

True

Some research finds that DNA ancestry testing is much more common among African Americans, primarily due to the limitations placed upon them in pursuing traditional genealogical research due to the slave trade and the erasure of much of African culture in America.

True

Sociologist Joe Faegin identified the theoretical perspective known as _________, a worldview that includes racial beliefs, racially loaded terms, racialized images, verbal connotations, racialized emotions and interpretations as well as discriminatory actions that help justify ongoing racism.

White racial frame