Exam 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change

Hochschild attributed the continued elusive racial bias that African Americans face in the United States to:

The effects of the direct-action protests between 1956 and 1964 were:

Percent plans have been universally successful in creating fairness and diversity.

A poll of Americans after the Rodney King beating trial said that the verdict would have been the same had every one been White (King and policemen).

Which U.S.Supreme Court case disallowed race in consideration of undergraduate admissions in 2003 with Affirmative Action?

Levine argued that Black Americans succeeded in constructing their own culture and that "culture is not a fixed condition but a ________."

Which U.S.Supreme Court case disallowed racial quotas with Affirmative Action?

The legislation of 1964 and 1965 marked:

W.E.B.DuBois stated that for Blacks,"one ever feels his twoness."

President John F.Kennedy's Civil Rights reform program was passed in 1974 as the Civil Rights Amendment.

All of the following corporations had major discrimination suits brought against them except:

Many critics of the Moynihan report focus on his assumption that Black problems are caused by the Black family.

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.

When police or authorities use race as part of the calculation of whether a person should be the subject of surveillance,questioning,or searching,it is called:

Kennedy (2001)pointed out that racial profiling generates anger,humiliation,distrust,and resentment among Blacks.

The Rodney King and O.J.Simpson cases and racial profiling bring up the issue of racial injustice in the administration of criminal law.

Black-White intermarriages have been ________ in recent decades.

The U.S.Supreme Court ruled in favor of Texas in the Hopwood v.Texas case.

This Civil Rights activist argued that the United States should set aside territory for Blacks or send them back to Africa.

The Civil Rights Act of 1991 reversed the effects of some rulings of the U.S.Supreme Court concerning discrimination in employment.