Exam 11: Ethnicity And Race

Explain what institutional racism is and how it operates.What outcomes does institutional racism cause? Use concrete examples.

_______________,consideration in terms of fixed and inflexible categories,often involves the psychological mechanism of _______________,directing hostility or anger toward objects that are not really the source of those feelings.

What is the difference between race and ethnicity? Do both of these concepts have their basis in culture? Explain.

The country that best illustrates the classic model of immigration is:

Which category of full-time workers has the lowest weekly earnings?

The majority of immigrants to the United States prior to 1965 was from _______________; since 1965,the majority has been from _______________.

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton argued that _______________ is responsible for the continuation of black poverty in the urban ghettos of the United States.

An individual must be prejudiced in order to discriminate.

Of the following,the most characteristic of the colonial model of migration is the:

An example of the interaction between micro and macro factors that influence migration is a family that moves from:

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

Explain how scientific racism played a significant role in solidifying racial categories and the process of racialization.

Which of the following groups saw the most significant INCREASE in household family income in the 1990s?

The fraction of all families who live in poverty headed by African American or Latino women is:

Hispanics now outnumber blacks in the United States.

The debate about the economic effect of new immigrants to the United States is best characterized by whether:

The research of Stephen Castles and Mark Miller (1993)identified four tendencies that they claim will characterize migration patterns in the coming years.Which is NOT one of those four tendencies?

Historically,Europeans classified the individuals with whom they came into contact in various parts of the world according to categories based on their physical attributes.These categories became the basis of systems that shaped and constrained the people's daily lives.This process is known as:

Racism is increasingly based on cultural differences as opposed to "scientific" racism; the example in the following that illustrates "new racism," or cultural racism is:

Although more African Americans are now attending college,a smaller proportion of whites than blacks graduate.