Chapter 10
Which of the following is a central explanation for why African Americans are disadvantaged regarding marriage, compared to whites and Latinos?
A. Black men are unemployed at higher rates than white and Latino men.
Which of the following is a reason that black marriages are twice as likely to end in divorce as whites?
A. High levels of poverty and high incarceration rates can strain marriages.
Why is it acceptable for nonwhites to demand racial power (e.g., "Black Power") but unacceptable for whites to demand "White Power"?
A. Nonwhites are responding to structural racism.
Which of the following did Edward Morris find in his ethnography of white students in a majority black school in Texas?
A. The nonwhite students used the term "white" to insult one another for personality traits such as being nerdy.
Which of the following reflect an intersectional view of social identity?
A. The phrase "white trash" is a slur that predates the American Civil War.
The practice known as a "Mississippi appendectomy" is best described by which of the following?
A. a sterilization performed on a poor black woman in the South without her consent
According to sociologist Kenneth Clark, for some lower-class girls, an out-of-wedlock birth is
A. a symbol of their womanhood.
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.
In the 1800s, immigration rates among Asian men to the West Coast were much higher than immigration rates among Asian women, as Asian women were not allowed to immigrate to the United States during this time. 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.
When Native Americans marry non-Native Americans, both partners often find themselves stepping out of their comfort zones to try to adopt one another's world perspectives . This type of emotional work is called
A. cultural labor.
According to sociologist Anne Rawls, whites and nonwhites may occupy the same geographic space, but not the same _______ space.
A. interactional
Your textbook discusses the importance of geography for one's identity, and includes an example of how white northerners in the United States fail to recognize their own racism. This failing occurs because
A. northern whites are more likely to understand racism as a southern phenomenon.
In 1930s America, economic pressures resulted in which of the following impacts for nonwhite families?
A. programs forced repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico
Consider the trend in American attitudes about interracial marriage. From 1968 to 2008, the percentage of Americans favoring interracial marriage
A. quadrupled
Whites are least likely to marry outside their
A. race.
When looking at whiteness via the lens of Goffman's dramaturgical approach, we find that the front stage and back stage
A. tend to be blurred into one stage for whites, so they do not need to be reflexive about their racial practices.
The process of immigration can be a great stressor for families coming to the United States. For example, Hmong immigrants are expected to adopt the nuclear family model instead of their traditional extended kinship networks. This pressure demonstrates that
A. the definition of family is not the same across racial-ethnic groups, and the expectation to conform can take a toll on families.
When a native-born, third-generation Chinese American woman is repeatedly asked, "Where are you originally from?" what aspect of her identity is being highlighted?
A. the way that many native-born Asian American citizens remain in a position symbolically tied to an assumed immigrant status
The "cool pose" of many young black men; the overt sexism and machismo of some Latino young men; and the in-your-face sexual bravado of some young white fraternity brothers are all examples of
A. the ways in which performances of masculinity vary by race.
White slave masters forcing black women to bear children prior to the Civil War and the forced sterilization of black women in the 1970s are different examples of the same phenomenon, which is best described as
A. white control of black female sexuality.