Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

Thanks to their economic growth over the last 30 years, Native Americans have a low poverty rate in the United States.

The Jones Act of 1917

The Alien Land Law of California stipulated that _____ aliens could lease land for only three years and that lands already owned or leased by them could not be bequeathed to heirs.

Why is it that most people disavow prejudice yet have some prejudices themselves? Identify and discuss two reasons this might occur

Compare and contrast the assimilation and culture-structure explanations of racial and ethnic inequalities. Use examples to illustrate key differences.

The term _____ refers to the formation of collective identity by multiple ethnic groups in order to address a common purpose.

Discuss the groups included in categories like Latino/Latina and Hispanic. Why is use of a single ethnicity to represent these groups problematic?

In order for a group to be considered an ethnic group, they must share a common culture and

How do sociologists define the terms racial minority group and ethnic minority group?  How might the sociological definitions differ from common understandings of terms like minority?

Which of these statements regarding the judgments people make about others is false?

As originally stated, the _____ perspective asserted that, to overcome adversity and oppression, individual immigrants must imitate the dominant White culture as much as possible.

As of 2017, about _____ of the world's Jewish population lives in the United States.