Minority Groups in America
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Minority Groups in America examines the historical and contemporary experiences of racial, ethnic, and cultural minority groups within the United States. The course explores the social, political, and economic factors that have shaped the lives and identities of diverse populations, including African Americans, Latino/a/x communities, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and others. Through an interdisciplinary lens, students will analyze issues such as immigration, systemic inequality, identity formation, activism, and the impact of public policies on minority groups. Emphasis is placed on understanding patterns of discrimination and resistance, as well as the contributions and challenges faced by these communities in American society.
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Racial and Ethnic Groups 14th Edition by Richard T. Schaefer
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Chapter 1: Exploring Race and Ethnicity
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Q1) Which of the following perspectives on race and ethnicity tends to emphasize group tensions between the privileged and the exploited?
A) conflict perspective
B) labeling perspective
C) ethnocentric perspective
D) functionalist perspective
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is a reason for members of a subordinate group generally marrying within their group?
A) Members of a subordinate group stand to gain economically by marrying within their own group.
B) Members of a subordinate group have a strong sense of group solidarity that discourages marriage to outsiders.
C) It is considered illegal for subordinate group members and dominant group members to marry.
D) The voting rights of members of a subordinate group will be revoked if they marry outside their group.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Prejudice
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Q1) Which of the following is a cause of prejudice?
A) the commitment to equality
B) the fear of being threatened
C) the desire to eradicate exploitation
D) the need to avoid failure
Answer: B
Q2) ________ is defined as a negative attitude toward an entire category of people.
A) Prejudice
B) Ethnocentrism
C) Pluralism
D) Panethnicity
Answer: A
Q3) The use of race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo is called
A) color-gradient racism
B) color-blind racism
C) non-visible racism
D) sand-blind racism
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Discrimination
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Q1) Which of the following statements about environmental justice is true?
A) Issues of environmental justice are limited to metropolitan areas.
B) There is a higher probability that White communities lack the resources to tackle environmental problems.
C) Low-income communities are more likely to be adjacent to waste sites.
D) Native American reservation land is protected from environmental abuse.
Answer: C
Q2) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was given the power to ________.
A) ensure that employees have a work environment free from recognized hazards
B) investigate complaints against employers
C) make recommendations to the President
D) ensure that employees do not work more than the maximum number of hours established by the Commission
Answer: B
Q3) ________ refers to overt acts of individual Whites against individual Blacks.
Answer: Individual discrimination
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Chapter 4: Immigration
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Q1) Which of the following is true of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act?
A) It initiated restrictions on immigration from South America.
B) It initiated restrictions on immigration from West Indies.
C) Immigration from Latin America increased sharply after the act.
D) Immigration from Greece increased after the act.
Q2) Which of the following perspectives is most likely to consider brain drain as a symptom of the unequal distribution of world resources?
A) functionalist
B) interactionist
C) conflict theorists
D) suffragists
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of immigration to the United States in 1921?
A) Japanese immigrants grew in numbers along the east coast.
B) Labor unions ensured that the Chinese workers got equal pay.
C) Measures were drawn up to block all Asian immigrants by establishing a zero quota for them.
D) Chinese and Japanese immigrants were compensated with monetary benefits after the unfair treatment was acknowledged.
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Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Religion
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Q1) Research has consistently shown that denominations can be arranged in a hierarchy based on ________.
A) education
B) social class
C) country of origin
D) mother language
Q2) After the American Revolution temporarily stopped the flow of immigration, ________ in Ireland spurred even greater movement to North America.
A) relative deprivation
B) religious intolerance
C) deteriorating economic conditions
D) de facto segregation
Q3) The lower-class Irish immigrants were referred to as ________.
A) desi
B) peoplehood
C) the lace curtain Irish
D) the shanty Irish
Q4) Discuss Marcus Hansen's principle of third-generation interest. Provide instances that have supported this principle.
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Chapter 6: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of fish-ins?
A) They were protests held by Washington State officials against Native Americans.
B) They were held by Native Americans to continue fish farming.
C) They brought increased public awareness of the deprivations of Native Americans.
D) The protests were held to safeguard White society's law.
Q2) ________ styles of dancing, singing, and costuming derived from the tradition of Plains tribes of Native Americans are spreading nationwide as common cultural traits.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of tribes that have opened casinos on reservations?
A) The tribes do not pay taxes to local, state, or federal governments.
B) Nationwide, the economic and social impact of the revenue from casinos is limited.
C) Unemployment in the reservations has substantially increased despite the casinos.
D) On the reservations that benefit from gambling enterprises, the family income is significantly higher than for the nation as a whole.
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Chapter 7: African Americans
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true of the condition of slaves as evident through the research conducted by W. E. B. Du Bois and many others?
A) Slave women were often identified as a slave man's possession.
B) Slave parents decided at what age children would begin working in the fields.
C) Slave couples could get their marriage registered in a court of law.
D) Slave men's only recognized family role was to sire offspring.
Q2) Discuss the theory of the talented tenth advocated by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Q3) Active nonviolent resistance is an example of ________.
A) the riff-raff theory
B) civil disobedience
C) segmented assimilation
D) relative deprivation
Q4) Describe the antislavery movement and its major goals. Why was racial equality not necessarily on the agenda of the abolitionists?
Q5) Martin Luther King, Jr. saw ________ as a "cry of disappointment" but acknowledged that it had a "positive meaning."
Q6) Distinguish the tactics and ideology of the early civil rights period (1954-1965) from those of the period since 1965.
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Chapter 8: African Americans Today
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Q1) The acting-White thesis overemphasizes ________.
A) personal responsibility
B) structural features
C) intellectual abilities
D) social mobility
Q2) Compared with Whites, Black men have higher death rates from ________.
A) respiratory disease
B) heart disease
C) AIDS
D) diarrhea
Q3) The most consistently documented strength of the Black family is the presence of ________.
A) a strong male wage earner
B) subsidized childcare for working mothers
C) an extended family household
D) a strong nonreligious orientation
Q4) Explain William J. Wilson's claim "class has become more important than race" in The Declining Significance of Race. What did critics of this comment have to say?
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Chapter 9: Latinos: The Largest Minority
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Q1) Federal law requires bilingual ballots in voting districts where at least ________.
A) 50 percent of the population back up democratic candidates
B) 5 percent voters do not speak English
C) 71 percent voters in the district are ineligible to vote due to insolvency or lunacy
D) 10 percent of the population is physically disabled or handicapped
Q2) Established political parties began recognizing Latinos as a force in the election process primarily through the ________.
A) poor Hispanic presence at the polls
B) policies that have facilitated English voters
C) growth of the Hispanic population
D) Hispanic presence outside conventional political activities
Q3) Like Mexican Americans, the Salvadorans have created ________ or associations that relate to a specific village that receives remittances.
A) colonias
B) ethnonational clubs
C) hometown clubs
D) maquiladoras
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Chapter 14: Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity
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Q1) Members of the Jewish community expressing concern about Jewish education are disappointed with its highly secularized nature because ________.
A) the Jewish sociocultural experience has been avoided altogether
B) Jewish religious teaching has been overemphasized
C) secular schooling is not contributing enough to Judaization
D) the members themselves are not highly educated
Q2) Jewish denominations are associated with class, nationality, and other social differences. Which of the following group members are the wealthiest and have the best formal education?
A) Conservative Jews
B) Reform Jews
C) Orthodox Jews
D) Reconstructionists
Q3) Which of the following terms refers to the Jewish religious yearning to return to the biblical homeland?
A) Diaspora
B) Judaization
C) Intifada
D) Zionism
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Chapter 15: Women: The Oppressed Majority
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Q1) The term ________ is used to describe the double burden, work outside the home followed by childcare and housework, that many women face and that few men share equitably.
Q2) ________ refers to the same wages for different types of work that are judged to be comparable by such measures as employee knowledge, skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.
A) Occupational integration
B) Pay equity
C) Occupational assimilation
D) Equal opportunity
Q3) A women's magazine that publishes articles and prints advertisements that encourage and glorify the role of woman as mother, wife, and housekeeper is advancing the concept of ________.
A) feminism
B) the feminine mystique
C) the second shift
D) sexism
Q4) The concept of ________ permits women and men to be both aggressive and expressive, depending on the requirements of the situation.
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