Exam 8: Race and Ethnicity As Lived Experience

An enormous controversy erupted in 1991 after five Los Angeles police officers were caught on tape beating a motorist named Rodney King. Many people see it as a blatant act of discrimination, although there continues to be much controversy regarding the event. Under what circumstances would this beating be considered institutional discrimination?

According to theorists like Edna Bonacich, what is the effect of a split labor market in which workers belonging to one race are paid less than those of a different race?

What is diversity training? What type of training proves most effective?

A working-class straight black man will experience discrimination the same way a wealthy gay black man will because both of them are the same race.

What is the difference between prejudice and discrimination?

In 2003, a major armed conflict began in the Darfur region of Sudan. The government carried out a deliberate and systemic extermination of Darfur's non-Arab population, resulting in several hundred thousand causalities and refugees. What best describes the actions taken by the government of Sudan against Darfur's non-Arab population?

A state is called ________ when whites are less than half the population.

In 1993, six African American Secret Service agents filed a complaint with the Department of Justice against Denny's for refusal of service. They argued that the restaurant took much longer to serve them than other customers. Thousands of other African Americans came forward with similar allegations after the complaint was filed. What are these allegations evidence of?

How is institutional discrimination different from individual discrimination?

An example of discrimination is

Critical race theory explores the relationship among race and what two other concepts?

According to Twine (2011), what changes occur in the lives of white women who have families with black men?

What is assimilation? How has it worked in the United States?

African American and Hispanic communities are much more likely to be located near toxic waste dumps than white communities. What does this tell you about race in America?

The 1994 treatment of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda was an example of

How do we decide when to display situational ethnicity?

What is a minority group, according to sociologists?

According to William Julius Wilson, racism has created a black underclass, but this underclass is perpetuated by

In Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev's 2016 analysis of 800 U.S. firms, which of the following approaches to diversity did they find was effective?

There are no positive consequences to constructing categories of race and ethnicity.