Unit 2 SOCIO: Race and Ethnicity
________ 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
________ refers to the theory that prejudice is embedded in our culture.
Culture of prejudice
________ 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
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
Myers (2007) states that the cultural assimilation of ________ is "almost complete, but with remnants of ethnicity." The presence of enclave neighborhoods, originally segregated slums dating from the nineteenth century continue to exist today.
Italian Americans
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
Which group is the only non-immigrant ethnic group in the United States?
Native Americans
________ is a process used by real estate agents to direct prospective homeowners toward or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race
Racial steering
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.
Addison is white and grew up in a lower class home. She's always had to work and support herself and has a hard time believing that she has any real advantages in life just because of her skin color. After taking a Sociology class, Addison realizes that while her life has still been hard, she has, in fact, benefitted from a society that generally caters to the needs of people who look like she does. Addison has come to better understand ________.
White privilege
A minority group is made up of people who
are disadvantaged in some way by the dominant group.
The belief that one skin tone is superior to another skin tone within a racial group is known as
colorism
A small city government works to reduce racism by hosting several events and providing opportunities for the majority and minority groups to work together on projects, thereby increasing interpersonal communication. This is an example of the ________ in action.
contact hypothesis
According to ________, racism is one way to justify racial inequality in society.
functionalism
The ________ focuses on how race and ethnicity provide strong symbols as sources of identity.
interaction theory
Race is about
physical markers
Which of these terms represents 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
The focus of ________ theory would be on the inequalities of gender, social class, education, race, and ethnicity.
social conflict
After the establishment of the United States' government, discrimination against Native Americans was codified and formalized in a series of laws intended to
subjugate Native Americans and keep them from gaining any power.
