Contemporary Social Issues
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Course Introduction
This course explores a wide range of current social issues affecting communities at local, national, and global levels. Through critical examination of topics such as inequality, race and ethnicity, gender, environmental challenges, globalization, and social justice movements, students will gain an understanding of the complex forces shaping contemporary society. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the root causes of these issues, the perspectives of various stakeholders, and the potential strategies for social change and advocacy. Students will engage with case studies, current events, and academic research to develop informed viewpoints and practical approaches to addressing social problems in today's world.
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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) In which U.S.Census did the Census takers allow people to check two or more races for the very first time?
A) 1790
B) 1880
C) 1950
D) 2000
Answer: D
Q2) All of the following factors affect assimilation except:
A) voluntary or involuntary immigration.
B) ethnic and racial similarity.
C) love of one's homeland.
D) differences in social power.
Answer: C
Q3) American Indians assimilated in three generations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) Kallen argued that ethnically distinctive groups need NOT disappear to have a culturally plural society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Structural assimilation focuses on ________ relationships,according to Gordon.
A) secondary
B) tertiary
C) primary
D) extra-racial Answer: C
Q3) Prejudices are rarely judgements of others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Almost all of the Dutch gave up their culture and their language.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) Germans did not move very often.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Iroquois were combined from all of the following tribes,except the:
A) Powhatans.
B) Cayugas.
C) Mohawks
D) Oneidas.
Answer: A
Q3) The most frequent destination of the Scotch-Irish immigrants was:
A) Jamestown.
B) Virginia.
C) Maryland.
D) Pennsylvania.
Answer: D
Q4) Anglo Americans quickly became the standard during the early American period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) Italian men often worked ________ jobs.
A) skilled blue-collar
B) professional
C) pick-and-shovel
D) medical
Q2) The total number of immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 2000 was approximately:
A) 15 million.
B) 25 million.
C) 66 million.
D) 200 million.
Q3) By the first part of the 20th century ________ Irish women came to the United States with the Irish men.
A) fewer
B) about the same
C) twice as many
D) slightly more
Q4) Irish men emigrated more than Irish women.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) ________ ________ 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
Q2) Natives feared that European countries were using the United States as its dumping grounds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Make a vocabulary list of the following words: racism,prejudice,stereotypes,and discrimination.Give examples of each of these from Chapter 5.
Q4) Native workers and business owners considered Chinese laborers to be:
A) diligent.
B) slaves.
C) dependable.
D) expendable.
Q5) Make a brief list of four attempts at scientific racism which failed and why each failed.
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) The NAACP was formed by all of the following except:
A) W.E.B. DuBois.
B) Whites.
C) Blacks.
D) Booker T. Washington.
Q2) The UNIA focused on sending Blacks to:
A) Africa.
B) colleges.
C) the West.
D) Congress.
Q3) Make the argument that the experience of Blacks resembles the experience of a conquered or colonized people.
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) When Black and White women are compared,the average earnings of Black women are lower than those of White women of similar education and experience.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X to drop his slave master's name.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following were used against the peaceful protesters in Alabama except:
A) water hoses.
B) dogs.
C) clubs.
D) rifles.
Q4) In the riots that followed the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles,who were the primary targets of the rioters?
A) Whites
B) non-Whites
C) Hispanics
D) police
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) The Zoot Suit Riot had international implications for America's true racist nature. A)True
B)False
Q2) Those comparing the Mexican American experience to that of second stream immigrants base their claims on the fact that most Mexican Americans came to the United States side of the border:
A) before 1800.
B) after 1800.
C) before 1900.
D) after 1900.
Q3) Very few Mexicans came to the United States illegally then later became citizens. A)True
B)False
Q4) Make the argument that Mexican Americans represent a diverse ethnic group with a historically unique pattern of immersion into U.S.society.
Q5) Make the argument that Mexican American immigrants resemble second stream immigrants, giving specific evidence to support your claim.
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Chapter 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and Incorporation
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Q1) Lemann proposed that dark skinned Puerto Ricans may face racial discrimination once living in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ________ Act of 1968,Title VII was an amendment to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act which funded bilingual education programs.
A) Language Equity
B) Fairness in Learning
C) Bilingual
D) English-Only
Q3) Briefly summarize the bilingual education debate including key arguments for and against and key principles of success from the assimilationistic and pluralistic perspectives.
Q4) Which ethnic group has been among the most successful in maintaining their cultural heritage in the United States?
A) Italians and Asians
B) French and Russians
C) Poles and Africans
D) Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans
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Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) By 1980 more than half of all Indians lived:
A) on reservations.
B) in cities.
C) in near-reservation cities.
D) on welfare.
Q2) A large number of tribes use blood quantum of ________ for tribal membership status.
A) one-seventh
B) one-half
C) one-fourth
D) one-sixteenth
Q3) During the French and Indian War of 1754 and 1761,the Iroquois eventually backed:
A) the English.
B) the French.
C) the Iroquois.
D) the Dutch.
Q4) President Richard Nixon argued for Indian self-determination.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) The School Board Crisis took place in all of the following except:
A) San Francisco.
B) early 1900s.
C) Japan.
D) United States.
Q2) Alien Land Laws were based on 1790 naturalization rules.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which U.S.Supreme Court case ruled that all Japanese Americans should be set free immediately?
A) Hirabayashi v. the United States
B) Korematsu v. the United States
C) Ex Parte Endo
D) Wasaka v. Topaz
Q4) Most anti-Japanese efforts in the United States began about:
A) 1776.
B) 1800.
C) 1863.
D) 1900.
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Chapter 12: Chinese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Middle Eastern Arab Americans
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Q1) The Chinese,like the Japanese,have also been referred to as the "model minority."
A)True
B)False
Q2) Briefly list,date,and describe the laws written against the Chinese and Koreans.Also list the key historical events and laws that reversed them.
Q3) Early Chinese immigrants became known as:
A) entrepreneurs.
B) teachers.
C) activists.
D) professionals.
Q4) The Philippines is really only a handful of islands and cultures.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Many Koreans came to the United States as:
A) Muslims.
B) Jews.
C) Catholics.
D) Protestants.
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) The main contemporary obstacle to Arab American identificational assimilation lies in the religious realm.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Vietnamese appear to be ________ a sequence of adaptation to the American setting that would produce results resembling those found among other Asian immigrant groups.
A) ignorant of B) purposefully avoiding C) following
D) distracted by
Q3) All of the following were provided in U.S.resettlement camps except:
A) college placement services.
B) war reparations.
C) english courses.
D) basic needs.
Q4) Describe five world,Middle Eastern,or religious factors that have affected the U.S.political efforts of Arab American Immigrants.
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) The American "core society" is much more ________ than in the past.
A) Anglo
B) Asiatic
C) homogeneous
D) diverse
Q2) When subordinate group members try to find mutually satisfactory ways to bring dominant and subordinate groups together it is referred to as a:
A) pluralized relationship to dominant.
B) colonized relationship to dominant.
C) centrifugal relationship to dominant.
D) centripetal relationship to dominant.
Q3) Most early colonial immigrant groups took exactly three generations to assimilate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) African Americans came to accept cultural pluralism ideas after the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Support the claim that cultural pluralism is common among U.S.ethnic groups.
Q6) Provide three evidences that interracial relations are NOT fixed over time.
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