Exam 16: Ethnicity and Race

In the United States, organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, have opposed adding a "multiracial" census category. This suggests that

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Question 41

Race, like ethnicity in general, is

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Question 42

What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?

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Question 43

When one's ethnic identity is flexible and situational, it can become an achieved status.

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Question 44

Ethnic/racial diversity is decreasing in the United States.

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Question 45

Interracial, biracial, and multiracial identities are becoming more and more common in the United States.

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Question 46

Genocide refers to the physical destruction of an ethnic or religious group through mass murder.

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Question 47

Ethnocide refers to the deliberate elimination of a cultural tradition through aggressive policies forcing assimilation.

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Question 48

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society. One way anthropologists-and social scientists in general-do this is by studying status, which refers to

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Question 49

The disproportionate likelihood of arrest, incarceration, and mistreatment by police faced by African Americans is an example of

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Question 50

Nation-state refers to an ethnic group that is not politically autonomous.

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Question 51

Brazilian racial classification is based exclusively on an individual's phenotype.

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Question 52

What does ethnicity mean?

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Question 53

Racial categories in Japan are more rigid than they are in Brazil.

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Question 54

Hypodescent in the United States automatically determines the race of a child whose parents belong to different racial groups.

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Question 55

A common technique in cultural colonialism is to flood ethnic areas with members of the dominant ethnic group to diminish the cohesion and clout of the local people.

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Question 56

Which of the following is NOT a Francophone West African nation where négritude ("black identity") developed?

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Question 57

In cultural terms, a race is an ethnic group that has a biological basis.

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Question 58

In which of the following categories should the concept of race be placed?

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In the United States, organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, have opposed adding a "multiracial" census category. This suggests that

Race, like ethnicity in general, is

What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?

When one's ethnic identity is flexible and situational, it can become an achieved status.

Ethnic/racial diversity is decreasing in the United States.

Interracial, biracial, and multiracial identities are becoming more and more common in the United States.

Genocide refers to the physical destruction of an ethnic or religious group through mass murder.

Ethnocide refers to the deliberate elimination of a cultural tradition through aggressive policies forcing assimilation.

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society. One way anthropologists-and social scientists in general-do this is by studying status, which refers to

The disproportionate likelihood of arrest, incarceration, and mistreatment by police faced by African Americans is an example of

Nation-state refers to an ethnic group that is not politically autonomous.

Brazilian racial classification is based exclusively on an individual's phenotype.

What does ethnicity mean?

Racial categories in Japan are more rigid than they are in Brazil.

Hypodescent in the United States automatically determines the race of a child whose parents belong to different racial groups.

A common technique in cultural colonialism is to flood ethnic areas with members of the dominant ethnic group to diminish the cohesion and clout of the local people.

Which of the following is NOT a Francophone West African nation where négritude ("black identity") developed?

In cultural terms, a race is an ethnic group that has a biological basis.

In which of the following categories should the concept of race be placed?

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