Social Inequality in a Global Age 4th Edition By Scott R. Sernau - Test Bank

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Social Inequality in a Global Age, Fourth Edition

 

CHAPTER 5

Racial and Ethnic Inequality

 

TEST ITEMS

 

Part I. Multiple Choice Questions

 

1. The number of races in the world is
2. down to three, due to migration
3. up to five, due to multiculturalism
4. socially defined *
5. four, as currently defined by physical and cultural anthropologists

 

2. The “giddy multitude” that participated in unrest in early Virginia was made up of
3. black slaves and freemen *
4. blacks and poor whites
5. black slaves and Susquehanna Indians
6. Algonquin tribes and French voyageurs

 

3. Internal colonialism sees ethnic and racial problems as rooted primarily in issues of
4. perception and ignorance
5. culture and misunderstanding
6. control and exploitation of land and labor *
7. boundaries and isolation of remote groups

 

4. The “Indian Fighter” who was president during Indian removal and the trail of tears was
5. Andrew Jackson *
6. “Stonewall” Jackson
7. Jesse Jackson
8. Michael Jackson

 

5. At the time they were forced to leave the Carolinas, the Cherokee were
6. settled farmers *
7. nomadic hunters
8. scattered foragers
9. raiding war parties

 

6. The “trail of tears” moved thousands of Native Americans to
7. Indian Territory, now Oklahoma *
8. tiny Eastern reservations
9. extermination camps
10. Canada

 

7. All Native Americans became citizens of the U.S. in the
8. 1780s with the Northwest Territories Ordinance
9. 1860s with the 13th Amendment
10. 1920s by Congressional action *
11. 1960s with the Civil Rights Act

 

8. The 1887 Dawes Act was part of series of attempts to encourage Native American
9. genocide
10. assimilation *
11. autonomy
12. emancipation

 

9. The policy of the “Indian New Deal” of the Roosevelt administration, and promoted by Collier, was to give Native American groups
10. a land allotment
11. greater autonomy *
12. citizenship
13. a final ultimatum

 

10. During the termination period of US government policy toward American Indians, the government
11. attempted mass genocide
12. to move Indians westward
13. to eliminate reservations *
14. to slaughter the buffalo

 

11. The largest number of Native Americans live
12. in major urban areas *
13. on reservations
14. in rural Oklahoma
15. in the Dakotas

 

12. The poorest Native Americans live
13. in Los Angeles ghettoes
14. in the Northeastern US
15. in Oklahoma
16. on isolated reservations *

 

13. Thomas Jefferson believed that black slaves should be
14. given land allotments of 160 acres to become small farmers
15. eventually freed and removed from American society *
16. watched over forever by kind slave-masters
17. recruited to fight in the Indian wars

 

14. Within a few years after the Civil War, many rural southern African Americans worked as
15. teamsters
16. indentured servants
17. sharecroppers *
18. railroad workers

 

15. The first Mexican Americans in California and the Southwest were the result of
16. the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago *
17. the immigration act of 1865
18. the trail of tears
19. the bracero program

 

16. Before joining the U.S. as a slave state, Texas had been
17. owned by Spain, part of Mexico, and an independent republic *
18. ruled by the Austrian emperor Maximilian

c . part of French North America

1. designated as the Indian Territory

 

17. The Bracero Program:
18. encouraged Mexican labor migration to the US *
19. encouraged Mexican immigration into the US
20. forcibly removed Mexican nationals from the US
21. led to the annexation of California and Texas

 

18. Which of the following is NOT an immigrant group in the United States
19. Puerto Ricans *
20. Koreans
21. Dominicans
22. Taiwanese

 

19. The Latino group that is the best off economically is:
20. Mexican Americans
21. Puerto Ricans
22. Cuban Americans *
23. Dominican Americans

 

20. Michael Hechter contends that Ireland was treated as an internal colony of
21. Scotland
22. Great Britain *
23. the United States
24. France

 

21. Political cartoons and speeches portrayed Irish immigration as a threat to American society because many of the Irish were
22. political radicals
23. Roman Catholic *
24. potato farmers
25. infected with small pox

 

22. “Lace curtain Irish” were more readily accepted than “Shanty Irish” because they
23. were middle class *
24. spoke English
25. were white
26. were protestant

 

23. A common neighborhood reaction to middleman minorities is:
24. stereotyping the new group as lazy
25. barring the new group from starting businesses
26. a mix of hostility and suspicion *
27. a pattern of wage discrimination

 

24. A good example of a group with what Portes calls an ethnic enclave economy is:
25. African Americans in Philadelphia
26. Laotians in Rockford
27. Cuban Americans in Miami *
28. Mexican Americans in Los Angeles

 

25. Chinese Americans in the Midwest, Korean Americans in Los Angeles, and Cuban Americans in Miami have all shared:
26. high rates of entrepreneurship *
27. the experience of discriminatory government policies
28. a tendency to work in the secondary labor market
29. an inability to prosper in the American economy

 

26. According to Oscar Lewis, a culture of poverty may be perpetuated across generations because of
27. continued discrimination
28. loss of jobs overseas
29. its effect on poor children *
30. its benefits for wealthy elites

 

27. Advocates of the culture of poverty view believe that:
28. social structures perpetuate poverty
29. the poor have psychological and cultural shortcomings *
30. we need to do more to help the poor
31. the poor are not a homogeneous group

 

28. Structuralist theories of poverty, such as advanced by William Ryan, are likely to stress the effects of the structure of the:
29. economy *
30. family
31. ethnic group
32. value system of the poor

 

29. Most sociologists challenge the claims that Herrnstein and Murray make in the Bell Curve that inner city poor remain in poverty because
30. they are discriminated against
31. they are genetically less intelligent *
32. they are likely to be drug addicted
33. inner city housing is deteriorating

 

30. According to Gunnar Myrdal’s American Dilemma, negative stereotypes of black Americans are
31. justifications for discrimination that violates American ideals *
32. the result of biased television coverage
33. an innate (natural) part of human nature
34. the result of propaganda by hate groups

 

 

Part II. True False Questions

 

31. Many social scientists contend that race is socially constructed rather than biologically defined. T

 

32. When they first arrived in the United States, Irish immigrants were sometimes considered to be a separate race. T

 

33. Proponents of international colonialism believe that racial prejudice is part of the human psyche and will always exist. F

 

34. Internal colonialism sees prejudice and discrimination as being rooted in labor exploitation. T

 

35. U.S. society is now post-racial in that income, education and poverty no longer vary by racial or ethnic category. F

 

36. Thanks to casinos, rural Native Americans are now much wealthier than the US average. F

 

37. Due to affirmative action, African Americans now have lower unemployment rates than non-Hispanic White Americans. F

 

38. Some accents and styles of speech are accorded more prestige than others. T

 

 

 

Part III. Short Answer Questions

 

39. What groups in the United States have used middleman minority strategies?

Ans: Jewish, Lebanese, Korean, and Chinese immigrants.  (Instructor may wish to add other local examples).

 

40. What are the key beliefs of the culture of poverty approach?

Ans: Poverty is perpetuated by a culture (or subculture) and its values and attitudes, especially are children absorb this and are not able to take advantage of new opportunities.

 

41. What are the key arguments of structural approaches to race, ethnicity and poverty?

Ans: Poverty is perpetuated by structural barriers and blocked opportunity, including joblessness and low wages, poor quality education, segregation, and racial discrimination.  Claims that the culture of poverty approach only blames the victim.

 

 

Part IV. Essay Questions

 

42. In what ways has whiteness been a category of privilege in U.S. history? In what ways is this still true and in what ways is it changing?  Are there new categories of privilege?

Ans: Varies

 

43. The concept of internal colonialism best fits the experience of which ethnic and racial groups?

Offer examples.  Are there currently internal colonial people in the United States or elsewhere?  Who might these be?

Ans: Varies

 

44. Give examples of the way language is used as a marker of class position as well as racial and ethnic identity. Are there other such markers that are predominant in social interaction?

Ans: Varies