American Pluralism
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Course Introduction
American Pluralism examines the diverse social, cultural, and political landscape of the United States, focusing on how various groups including those defined by race, ethnicity, religion, gender, class, and sexuality have interacted, coexisted, and contested power throughout American history. The course explores the historical development of pluralism, key events and movements that have shaped the American experience, and the ongoing challenges and opportunities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in contemporary society. Students will critically analyze concepts such as assimilation, multiculturalism, identity politics, and the dynamics of privilege and marginalization, developing a nuanced understanding of the complexities that define American life.
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Racial and Ethnic Relations in America 7th Edition by S. Dale McLemore
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Chapter 1: Natives and Newcomers
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Q1) Robert E.Park's theory called the cycle of race relations had four processes or stages.All of the following belong to those stages,except:
A) uniformity.
B) contact.
C) competition.
D) accommodation.
Answer: A
Q2) ________ is the concentration of a group of people within a particular area primarily because they wish to be together.
A) Convolution
B) Congregation
C) Segregation
D) Subvolution
Answer: B
Q3) Gordon denied the influence of subsocieties in assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) Park and Gordon disagreed that cultural assimilation must lead to other forms of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) In Chapter Two,the authors list ________ subprocesses of assimilation that may lead to a situation in which subordinate and dominant groups become indistinguishable from one another.
A) three
B) five
C) six
D) eight
Answer: D
Q3) Which model do the authors use as their reference point for this book?
A) Anglo-conformity
B) melting pot
C) cultural pluralism
D) secondary assimilation
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) The English exhibited ethnocentrism from the onset in the American colonies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Germans were united behind the Revolutionary cause.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The resolution of conflict with the Powhatan Indians created the reservation system for Indians.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The Powhatans eventually:
A) converted to Christianity.
B) killed one-third of the settlers.
C) convinced English to keep searching for accommodations with Indians.
D) convinced English to return to England.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) In 1875 the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that only the ________ ________ was empowered by the Constitution to regulate immigration.
A) state legislatures
B) county governments
C) European countries
D) U.S. Congress
Q2) Why didn't the second stream immigrant move beyond the frontier?
A) The jobs there were only for existing natives.
B) Indian hostility
C) Civil War
D) It was officially closed.
Q3) The most important recruiting tool for German immigrants was:
A) personal letters.
B) periodicals.
C) guidebooks.
D) pamphlets.
Q4) Since 1968 the U.S.immigration policy has been considered more humane.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How is current immigration policy more humane toward non-European immigrants?
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) In Katz and Braly's 1933 study,college students saw Turks as being:
A) intelligent.
B) mercenary.
C) lazy.
D) cruel.
Q2) The tendency to rate all out-group members as lower than in-group members is called:
A) prejudice.
B) stereotypes.
C) ethnocentrism.
D) discrimination.
Q3) ________ ________ is the feeling one group member has about how socially proximate another group's members should be able to interact with one's own.
A) Social distance
B) Social stigma
C) Social desirability
D) Social stratification
Q4) Marx argued that owners lose money when discrimination occurs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) The following bureau was set up to assist Blacks after the Civil War ended:
A) Blackmen's.
B) Freedmen's.
C) Former slave's.
D) All free.
Q2) Using examples provided in the text,create an argument in favor of using peaceful, non-violent efforts to bring about civil rights change.
Q3) Fogel and Engerman's first book touched off an intellectual firestorm because they did not include a:
A) set of quantitative data.
B) reference section.
C) condemnation of slavery.
D) condemnation of Whites.
Q4) During the period between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Depression thousands of Blacks had been:
A) deported.
B) lynched.
C) raped.
D) robbed.
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) The authors argue that many African Americans have moved slowly toward citizenship suffering more from ________ ________ than from old fashion racism.
A) modern sharecropping
B) modern slavery
C) modern racism
D) modern servitude
Q2) Kennedy (2001) pointed out that racial profiling generates anger,humiliation,distrust,and resentment among Blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many critics of the Moynihan report focus on his assumption that Black problems are caused by the Black family.
A)True
B)False
Q4) About 20 percent of African American men and women were interracially married in 1996.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) The conquerors of Mexico were Christian and European.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Make the argument that Mexican American immigrants resemble second stream immigrants, giving specific evidence to support your claim.
Q3) The Zoot Suit Riot had international implications for America's true racist nature.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Zoot suiters called themselves:
A) "Tough guys."
B) "Americans."
C) "Mexicans."
D) "Pachucos."
Q5) Give five evidences that Mexican Americans have successfully resisted Anglo-Conformity. Give five evidences that Mexican Americans have influenced the mainstream Anglo culture.
Q6) How are Mexican Americans both an immigrant and colonized group?
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Chapter 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and Incorporation
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Q1) Which subgroup of U.S.Hispanics is the second largest?
A) Cubans
B) Dominicans
C) Puerto Ricans
D) Mexicans
Q2) Many Puerto Rican islanders speak Spanish better than English.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following are examples of U.S.Census Bureau struggles to define Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans except:
A) Mother tongue.
B) the use of the term "other."
C) last name spelling.
D) skin color.
Q4) According to Gordon's theory,Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans are assimilating by substitution.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Describe some of the unique hardships faced by Mexican Americans and by Puerto Ricans.
Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) The Appropriations Act of 1871 brought an end to:
A) dominant group violence on Indians.
B) trade
C) education of friendly Indians.
D) deportation
Q2) Pine Ridge Reservation is:
A) one of the richest places in the United States.
B) one of the most densely populated places in the United States.
C) one of the most rural places in the United States.
D) one of the poorest places in the United States.
Q3) SAI was founded on Columbus day in 1911.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The English lost the War of 1812 and the Indians gained ongoing European support for their resistance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Explain "blood quantum" and why such a doctrine is so important to determining membership in any given tribe.
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) One man,a Japanese evacuee named James Wakasa,had fought in WWI and was ________ by a guard in the Topaz camp.
A) honored
B) given preferential treatment
C) beaten
D) shot and killed
Q2) One of the outcomes of the compromise of the School Board Crisis was:
A) increased Japanese immigration to the United States.
B) the Gentlemen's Agreement.
C) the Oriental Agreement.
D) denial of all Japanese marriages.
Q3) In 1922 the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa was not White and not a:
A) Japanese.
B) immigrant.
C) thief.
D) citizen.
Q4) Levine and Montero argued that Japanese American culture will remain for a while.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Chinese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Middle Eastern Arab Americans
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Q1) The Chinese were forbidden,even after court rulings,to bring wives and children to the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What socio-cultural factors kept William Howard Taft from succeeding at Americanizing the Philippines?
Q3) Draw a line graph of numbers of immigrants from each of the Asian regions.Place key legal and global events on peaks and valleys in the graph.Explain the impact from the INAA.
Q4) Approximately ________ of Filipinos are professionals or managers.
A) 10 percent
B) 18 percent
C) 39 percent
D) 68 percent
Q5) Explain the role Japan played in the immigration patterns of each of these Asian immigrant groups.Note key historical events and dates
Q6) Briefly list,date,and describe the laws written against the Chinese and Koreans.Also list the key historical events and laws that reversed them.
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) Ibish (2003) reported that about nine weeks after 9/11 the rates of violence against Arab Americans increased.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which world-level organization tried to help with the Indochinese refugee problem?
A) WHO
B) UNHCR
C) WBO
D) UNICEF
Q3) Which state received the most Vietnamese refugees?
A) Texas
B) California
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia
Q4) The most common type of U.S.hate group organization is the neo-Nazis.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe the factors pertinent to the first,second,and third-period Arab immigrants. How do they compare and contrast?
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) Bobo,Kluegel,and Smith refer to the fact that White people underestimate the importance of the status of being White in American society as:
A) White ignorance.
B) White privilege.
C) laissez-faire racism.
D) laissez-faire ethnogenesis.
Q2) The basic faith of the cultural pluralists is that consensus on the principles of American economic and political life does not require a/an ________ to the will of the dominant group.
A) capitulation
B) adaptation
C) configuration
D) confirmation
Q3) Most Indian tribes have resisted assimilation only in the last century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Serbs set out on a campaign of Albanian ethnic cleansing.
A)True
B)False
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