Cultural Diversity in the United States Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Cultural Diversity in the United States examines the varied cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds that make up the nations population. The course explores historical and contemporary issues related to race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and immigration, highlighting how these elements shape individual identities and collective experiences. Students analyze the challenges and opportunities stemming from diversity, study relevant social policies, and engage with theories and perspectives on multiculturalism. Through case studies, discussions, and critical reflection, the course fosters a deeper appreciation for the complexities of American society and prepares students to interact effectively in a diverse and interconnected 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) The authors argue that there is really only one uniform process leading to Americanization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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) Ethnogenesis is argued to involve ________ negotiation among various racial and ethnic groups and the dominant group.
A) segmented
B) continual
C) exclusively formal
D) exclusively informal
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) Any group wishing to complete Anglo-conformity assimilation must continue to struggle over values and power.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The authors agree with Gordon that there are subprocesses of assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) According to your text,as the English colonized the North American continent,the Native Indians had to conform or:
A) fight to the death.
B) pillage and plunder.
C) retreat to other lands.
D) poison the water supplies.
Answer: C
Q4) After secondary assimilation,identificational assimilation comes next.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) Eventually the term "slave" came to mean:
A) any servant.
B) White and Black servants.
C) African descended servants.
D) European born, American raised servants.
Answer: C
Q2) King Phillip was really:
A) a pirate.
B) a settler Puritan.
C) an Indian herdsman.
D) an Indian chief.
Answer: D
Q3) The Anglos feared that the Germans would set up their own German state.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The Iroquois formed a confederacy against the English.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) During the decade of the 1820s,America was a very popular destination for emigrants.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The earliest Jews to arrive in the United States were called the Sephardim.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which cultural,political,and historical factors predisposed the Italians to struggle to assimilate once in the United States?
Q4) Using a few of the groups from each immigration stream,give examples of exploitation of newcomers by natives.Who did the exploiting and did nationality make any difference?
Q5) What socio-economic circumstances did the Irish,Germans,and many others leave and what did they find here in the United States after they migrated?
Q6) 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.
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) There is massive evidence that visible,phenotypic races are:
A) pure.
B) moderately pure.
C) highly intermixed.
D) slightly intermixed.
Q2) The Chinese rarely found justice for the violence committed against them.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bogardus started the research techniques on social distance studies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Native workers and business owners considered Chinese laborers to be:
A) diligent.
B) slaves.
C) dependable.
D) expendable.
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) Take the position of the critics of the Atlanta Compromise and make a list of weaknesses Booker T.Washington had in his approach.
Q2) All of the following are true of the American Black experience except:
A) Blacks resemble a colonized minority.
B) Blacks, like Europeans came voluntarily.
C) Blacks did not come voluntarily.
D) Blacks resembled a conquered people.
Q3) The NAACP was formed by all of the following except:
A) W.E.B. DuBois.
B) Whites.
C) Blacks.
D) Booker T. Washington.
Q4) Prosser,Vesey,and Turner were all hanged for slave uprisings.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jim Crow laws were legislated at all of the following levels,except:
A) state.
B) federal.
C) city.
D) county.
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) In 2000,which race had the most female professionals?
A) Blacks
B) Asians
C) Native Americans
D) Whites
Q2) Which research claimed the fabric of the Negro society and family were deteriorating?
A) Gutman
B) Levine
C) DuBois
D) Moynihan
Q3) Many U.S.presidents laid the foundation for Affirmative Action with their presidential orders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In both the 1980s and 1990s,race differences in illiteracy were negligible.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly summarize the Black protest efforts that proved to be most successful during the 1950s to 1970s.
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) Compared to the culture of the United States,the culture of Mexico had become much more ________ by 1821 than had the United States.
A) Anglicized
B) Francafied
C) Spanicized
D) Indianized
Q2) Very many Mexican Americans came to the United States in the 50 years following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Many Mexican American veterans came home to find:
A) continuing discrimination.
B) continuing respect and honor.
C) mutual acceptance.
D) open work opportunities.
Q4) Make the claim that Mexican Americans have proven their loyalty to the United States at critical times in the country's history.
Q5) 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) Summarize the key historical events and dates leading up to Puerto Rico's current status with the United States.
Q2) Which subgroup of U.S.Hispanics is the largest?
A) Mexicans
B) Puerto Ricans
C) Dominicans
D) Cubans
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) Which is the most important factor when determining if children will speak Spanish or English?
A) if their parents speak English
B) if the schools teach English only
C) if the schools teach bilingual
D) if the community is English-speaking
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Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) The Florida Seminoles:
A) were defeated by the federal troops.
B) were removed by the federal troops after a 15 year stand off.
C) were successful in destroying the entire federal army.
D) State of Georgia, ignored
Q2) Alaska has no native tribes of Indians.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The termination policy was designed to get government out of Indian business.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The terminated tribe,Klamaths,ultimately:
A) never received promised payments for all.
B) learned to trust the BIA.
C) learned to trust the federal government.
D) learned to sell land for money.
Q5) Describe the legal process by which Indians came to be governed under the "Sovereign Nation" doctrine.
Q6) Describe the similarities and differences in Mexican American and Native American formal relations with the U.S.government.
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) Hawaii has very little interracial marriage compared to the rest of the United States.
A)True
B)False
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) A Japanese moderate residential index of dissimilarity would be:
A) 15.
B) 60 and over.
C) 83.
D) 46.
Q4) Using information provided in the text,track the population of Japanese Americans in the United States noting years and data where available and any periods of stagnant immigration.
Q5) Compare and contrast the middle-man minority and ethnic-enclave theories in explaining the Japanese American experience.Which do you prefer and why?
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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) Filipino men had an unusually difficult time surrounding the issue of:
A) alcoholism.
B) activism.
C) interracial marriage.
D) crime prevention.
Q3) Which cultural factors worked uniquely against the Filipino immigrants early on How significant did they turn out to be in the overall Filipino "success" story?
Q4) Britain's early relations to China included exporting opium grown in India.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most new Asian Indian immigrants hold a bachelor's degree.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What was unique about the early Asian Indian immigrants? How did they uniquely adapt and adjust to the hostility and discrimination they faced?
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) Most native-born Arab Americans have married out.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which state received the most Vietnamese refugees?
A) Texas
B) California
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia
Q3) There are at least 1 million Arab Americans in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unofficial estimates of drowned Boat people are:
A) 10,000
B) 15,700
C) 125,900
D) 200,000
Q5) Support or refute the authors' claim that civil rights are at odds with national security in the current state of affairs.Support your claim with evidence.
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) Alba and Nee (1997) found that "there is abundant evidence that assimilation has been the ________ among the descendants of the immigrants...who mainly came from Europe...before 1930."
A) bain of failure
B) bain of taunting
C) slave trend
D) master trend
Q2) Provide three evidences that interracial relations are NOT fixed over time.
Q3) According to recent studies,who receives the highest income in Brazil?
A) Whites
B) Blacks
C) mulattos
D) immigrants
Q4) Discuss the possibility that immigrant youth might be more attracted to inner-city, low-income culture rather than middle-class culture.
Q5) The immigrant ethnics are less likely than the colonized ethnics to resent the dominant group.
A)True
B)False
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