History of Race in America Solved
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Course Introduction
This course explores the complex and evolving history of race and race relations in the United States from colonial times to the present. Students will examine the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that have shaped concepts of race, as well as the experiences of different racial and ethnic groups throughout American history. Key topics include slavery and abolition, Native American displacement, immigration, segregation and civil rights, as well as contemporary debates around identity, privilege, and systemic inequality. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of how race has influenced American society and continues to impact issues of justice and equity today.
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Race in America 1st Edition by Matthew Desmond
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Chapter 1: Race in the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) Consider the following scenario: School board members are debating a policy change that would increase the police presence at the local high school.What course of action might a sociologist recommend before making a decision?
A)assigning police to schools based on the per pupil percentage of disciplinary infractions
B)letting the principal decide based on what he thought worked at the high school he attended
C)analyzing the factors that are of concern,including social and historical patterns
D)letting the students vote
Answer: C
Q2) The _____________________ of race organizes people into bounded groupings based on their phenotype,______________,or both.
A)symbolic category;ancestry
B)historical development;culture
C)visibility;symbolic category
D)political history;culture
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Invention of Race
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Q1) Which group proved most influential in solidifying racial taxonomies?
A)Philosophers,precursors to modern-day public intellectuals
B)Natural historians,precursors to modern-day biologists
C)Political scribes,precursors to modern-day journalists
D)Solicitors,precursors to modern-day lawyers
Answer: B
Q2) For the Native Americans,the process of white colonialism brought inflictions on their bodies,their spirits,and their land.What is one example given in the textbook of how Native Americans experienced violence "on their spirits"?
A)cultural reeducation
B)disease
C)eradication of tribal property
D)bullet wounds
Answer: A
Q3) In 1519,which city had the largest population?
A)London
B)Calcutta
C)Paris
D)Tenochtitlán
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Politics
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Q1) Jarrod is a 48-year-old wealthy,African American CEO.Which political party is he most likely to vote for?
A)Independent
B)Republican
C)Green
D)Democrat
Answer: D
Q2) In 1960,what percentage of Mississippi's black adults was registered to vote?
A)less than 2 percent
B)less than 5 percent
C)less than 20 percent
D)less than 40 percent
Answer: A
Q3) How many citizens do sociologists estimate have been disenfranchised because they have felony convictions?
A)73,000
B)524,000
C)5.3 million
D)15.7 million
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Economics
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Q1) What was one result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the 1980 Refugee Act?
A)European immigrants surged to the United States in record numbers.
B)Refugees,asylum seekers,and undocumented immigrants were no longer permitted entry to the United States.
C)Tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees relocated to the United States in the mid-1970s.
D)Mexican immigrants became one of the wealthiest immigration groups,with just a 2 percent poverty rate for first-generation children.
Q2) Shelley and Sam,an African American married couple,have a new home in a middle-class neighborhood.Though they are both lawyers and have experienced economic success,they continue to be troubled by the amount of daily discrimination they and their children face.In Black Bourgeoisie,Sociologist E.Franklin Frazier would describe their predicament as a kind of:
A)physical isolation
B)spiritual suffering
C)economic deprivation
D)first world problem
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Chapter 5: Housing
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Q1) What is one way the Federal Housing Administration contributed to the exclusion of nonwhites from the private housing market?
A)loan denial to nonwhites
B)increased rent in city apartments
C)property deeds
D)urban renewal projects
Q2) Towns that hung signs reading "Whites Only within City Limits after Dark" were known as:
A)Jim Crow towns
B)suburbs
C)ghettos
D)sundown towns
Q3) What does Chapter 5 identify as a "new tactic of white fight?"
A)flying the Confederate flag
B)moving into renewed urban centers
C)creating new sundown towns
D)passing English-only ordinances
Q4) What are four characteristics of suburbs that are designed to prevent interaction with those that live in the city?
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Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment
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Q1) When comparing white-collar and violent street crime,we might conclude that:
A)violent street crime is more damaging to society because it causes fear and requires the expense of surveilling people through increased policing
B)street crimes are worse than white-collar crimes because of the different intentions and motivations of the criminals
C)white-collar crimes potentially damage society as much or more than violent street crimes because they cost society billions of dollars per year and even result in more deaths and injuries
D)when black people commit white-collar crimes,they are condemned even more than when they commit violent street crimes or than when white people commit white-collar crimes
Q2) When boxer Mike Tyson was accused of raping Desiree Washington,a young black woman,many prominent African Americans,eager to quash the "black male rapist" trope,rushed to Tyson's side.This situation is an example of what?
A)inverse racism
B)racial isolationism
C)black protectionism
D)afro-feminism
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Chapter 7: Education
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Q1) What is one way that progressive intellectual movements,such as feminism,are dominated by a white framework?
A)centering women of color's unique experiences
B)attempting to speak for women of color
C)publishing memoirs rather than statistical research
D)committing to electoral politics as a method for social change
Q2) Textbook writers describing the penning of the Declaration of Independence without acknowledging the influence of the governance of the Iroquois Nation is one example of what?
A)racial domination
B)segregated education
C)multicultural curricula
D)historic distortion
Q3) Familism is a variant of _____________ having to do with one's attachment to,and reliance on,family-based relationships.
A)cultural capital
B)social capital
C)economic capital
D)symbolic capital
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Chapter 8: Aesthetics
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Q1) Achieving commercial success at the expense of a political message or an artist's authenticity is often referred to as what?
A)going native
B)cultural appropriation
C)cultural capital
D)selling out
Q2) What is the way for nonwhite artists to free themselves from the dominance of the white gaze?
A)represent people of color as exotic
B)imitate successful white artists
C)depict people of color as full,complex humans
D)depict whites solely based on stereotypes
Q3) Chapter 8 contains a long discussion of Abercrombie and Fitch.What is the main argument of that passage?
A)Abercrombie ads promote a racist aesthetic.
B)Abercrombie ads promote an antiracist aesthetic by highlighting all "beautiful people."
C)Abercrombie has learned how to sell white privilege by manufacturing a "look."
D)Abercrombie recently won an employment discrimination lawsuit.
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Chapter 9: Associations
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Q1) On one hand,racial tourism can denaturalize racial categories and provide people with a kind of racial freedom that offline life does not permit.On the other hand,too often racial tourism:
A)reinforces racial divides through stereotypes
B)leads to hate crimes and other forms of violence
C)creates racist ideologies where they didn't previously exist
D)erases the differences between virtual race relations and real race relations
Q2) Describe three ways Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X were similar in their views and leadership styles.How did they contrast to Martin Luther King,Jr.?
Q3) In America,_____ were the most likely to experience racial or religious discrimination in 2014.
A)Christians
B)Jews
C)Muslims
D)Mormons
Q4) Explain three ways race and ethnicity contribute to the "digital divide" regarding access to the Internet.
Q5) Provide two examples of how religious organizations promote and preserve racial and ethnic identities.
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Chapter 10: Intimate Life
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Q1) A beauty product marketed to Asian American women with the intent of "lightening" their skin represents:
A)the racialization of Asian femininity toward white standards
B)the expanding array of accepted standards for cultural beauty in American society
C)the normalization of cosmetics for Asian Americans
D)a radical shift in beauty norms for Asian Americans compared to a decade ago
Q2) According to sociologist Anne Rawls,whites and blacks may occupy the same geographic space,but not the same ________________ space.
A)dynamic
B)socio-racial
C)interactional
D)community
Q3) When you hear a black man today saying that some black women are "too bossy," he may be unconsciously referring to:
A)the stereotype of the threat of black women's overt sexuality
B)the stereotype of the "black matriarch"
C)the stereotype of black women as "natural" leaders
D)the stereotype of the "black Jezebel"
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Chapter 11: Toward Racial Democracy
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Q1) Which of the frameworks used for responding to racial inequalities aspires to the goal of living in a society where people are judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character," as Martin Luther King,Jr. ,once stated?
A)color-blindness
B)multiculturalism
C)cosmopolitanism
D)racial democracy
Q2) An elementary school that recognizes holidays of various groups during the fall and into winter by having children make crafts relating to the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Adha,the Christian celebration of Christmas,the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah,and the American civic celebration of Thanksgiving,among many others,is most likely adopting which of the following frameworks?
A)color-blindness
B)multiculturalism
C)assimilation
D)abstract liberalism
Q3) Can people go "too far" in accepting adversarial cultures through the lens of multiculturalism? Discuss one example to support your answer.
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