Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

An ethnic group is a category of people who have been singled out as inferior or superior,often on the basis of real or alleged physical characteristics such as skin color,hair texture,eye shape,or other subjectively selected attributes.

______________ live primarily in the Southeast,especially Florida.As a group,they have fared somewhat better than other Latino/as because many were affluent professionals and businesspeople who fled their homeland after Fidel Castro's 1959 Marxist revolution.

Sociologist Joe Feagin referred to______________as practices that have a harmful impact on subordinate group members even though the organizationally or community prescribed norms or regulations guiding these actions were initially established with no intent to harm.

______________ have a high price even for survivors,whose life chances can become bleaker even after the violence subsides.

Explain how the experiences of Native Americans have been different from those of other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

The "Trail of Tears" was one of the most disastrous acts of forced assimilation that African Americans experienced in the United States.

The initial wave (between 1850 and 1880)of Chinese immigrants consisted primarily of:

Interactionists point out that when people from divergent groups are exposed to each other,favorable attitudes and behavior develop when certain factors are present.Which of the following is NOT one of these factors?

The ultimate form of discrimination occurs when people are considered to be unworthy to live because of their race or ethnicity.______________is the deliberate,systematic killing of an entire people or nation.

Since World War II,many______________have been very successful;their median income is more than 30 percent above the national average.

The "Trail of Tears" refers to:

A bank might consistently deny loans to people of a certain race.This would be an example of discrimination.

Examples of______________include the killing of thousands of Native Americans by white settlers in North America and the extermination of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany.

______________ assimilation occurs when members of one group marry those of other social or ethnic groups.

______________ refers to the division of the economy into two areas of employment:,a primary sector or upper tier,composed of higher-paid (usually dominant group)workers in more secure jobs,and a secondary sector or lower tier,comprised of lower-paid (often subordinate group)workers in jobs with little security and hazardous working conditions.

Which group has the highest rate of infant mortality and death by exposure and malnutrition? They also have high rates of suicide,substance abuse,and school violence.

Slavery continued in the South until 1863,when the practice was abolished by the:

Recent publicity about celebrities of mixed-race heritage,such as the golfer Tiger Woods,together with the change in the way that the Census Bureau asks about race,may lead more people to identify themselves as having more than one racial heritage.

Between 1619 and the 1860s,about______________Africans were forcibly brought to North America,primarily to work on southern plantations.These actions were justified by the devaluation and stereotyping of African Americans.

When an ethnic group takes up arms and fights for the right to choose their own way of life as has happened recently in Myanmar,Bangladesh and South Sudan,they are fighting for______________.