Exam 11: Sex and Gender

Canada is colour-blind.

Shauna asks Larissa "What are you?" as a way to determine her racial and ethnic background.Shauna acts surprised when Larissa says she is Jewish.Which term would you use to describe this scenario?

Racism involves elements of prejudice,ethnocentrism,stereotyping,and discrimination.

Canadian immigration policy continued to use race or national origin as a criterion for admission until the early 1960s.

Which of the following is NOT a critique of multiculturalism put forward by Neil Bissoondath (1994)?

If we assume that racism is about politics of difference,then which statement holds?

Signs such as "No dogs or Jews allowed" represent which of the following experiences typical of Jewish Canadians between 1933 and 1945?

De jure discrimination is enforced by custom.

A volleyball coach is happy to work with black players,but feels that white fans will accept only a certain percentage of people of colour on the team,thus affecting his hiring practices.How would sociologist Robert Merton classify this coach?

Which term best describes a collection of people such as the English,the Vietnamese,Nigerians,or Sicilians?

Which term best characterizes members of the dominant group who lobby for progressive antiracism policies but only because they believe that doing so will advance their own self-interest?

Suppose a group of immigrants from Africa learns English,dresses in Western-style clothing,and abandons their traditional foods after moving to the United States.According to a functionalist perspective,what kind of assimilation are they demonstrating?

Which theory of prejudice generally includes the need for a scapegoat?

In 1980,Emily,a status Indian woman,had her rights revoked when she married Ted,a Caucasian man.Emily was a victim of what?

The poor housing conditions on Indigenous reserves are attributable to which of the following?

White workers may use racial discrimination against nonwhites to protect their position,particularly when upper-tier workers feel threatened by lower-tier workers.This sort of explanation of prejudice is based on what theory?

In 2008,how many Canadians identified themselves as a visible minority?

Which group was preferred as immigrants during the early phase of Canadian immigration when there was a "racial pecking order"?

Scapegoats are incapable of offering resistance to the hostility and aggression of others.

Why was the British North America Act significant?