Exam 11: Ethnicity and Race

MATCHING -Immigrants are admitted on a temporary basis, often to fulfill demands within the labor market, but do not receive citizenship rights

Why is race ultimately an unrealistic and impractical concept? Why is it nonetheless a persistent way of categorizing people? Provide examples. Your answer should be one paragraph in length.

The sociologically defined characteristic of a minority group is:

The majority of immigrants to the United States prior to 1965 were from Europe, but since 1965, the majority have been from Latin America and Asia, something that is attributable to the:

As a sociological concept, race refers to:

Collective slave revolts were more common in the Caribbean than in the United States.

Arturo is a documented migrant worker in the United States. He was injured while working and went to the hospital for treatment. While he was at the hospital, the doctors and nurses had difficulty communicating with Arturo because he speaks some English but not enough to understand medical terminology. The hospital does not have a translator on staff. This is an example of:

Does institutional racism seem to be declining in the United States? What evidence supports your position? Explain your answer in one paragraph.

Dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas often in a forced way or under traumatic circumstances is known as:

Using the example of the Ferguson Police Department, explain how police departments use the municipal code to exert control. Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

In the preceding 350 years or so, there have been at least four massive population shifts. The following example that most closely represents these massive shifts is the:

MATCHING -Immigrants who gain entry into a country either secretly or under a nonimmigration pretense

Did slaves resist?

Were most white Northern leaders abolitionists?

Explain what institutional racism is and how it operates. Use the document the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) produced in 2015 in response to a grand jury's exoneration of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, after he fatally shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown to illustrate institutional racism. Your answer should be one to two paragraphs in length.

The notion that was prevalent in white society during the pre-civil rights era that African American males had very highly charged sexual urges that they could not control is an example of:

As of 2016, which group had the highest unemployment rate?

The unemployment rate of black and Hispanic men has shrunk since the 1960s, so it is now about the same as the unemployment rate for white men.

A micro-level factor that might be part of a systems approach to explaining migration patterns between Mexico and the United States is the:

The physical separation of a racial or ethnic group is called: