Exam 7: Hispanic Americans: Colonization, Immigration, and Ethnic Enclaves

Unlike ______, Chicanos were not cut off from their homeland and native culture.

In Puerto Rico, distinctions of race are much more important than distinctions of class.

In the late 1940s, ______ was a major center of settlement for Puerto Ricans.

Hispanic Americans' primary structural assimilation with the dominant group has been ______ the assimilation of African Americans and ______ the assimilation of Native Americans.

In recent years, anti-Latino prejudice has increased ______.

Analyze the status of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans in terms of acculturation, secondary structural integration, and primary structural integration. What important differences can you identify between these three Hispanic groups? How do you account for these differences? Apply Blauner's hypothesis and the concepts of split labor markets, the urban underclass, institutionalized discrimination, and ethnic enclaves in your answer.

Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (Arizona SB 1070), in part, allowed ______.

Which of the following might explain why the U.S. policy on immigration from Mexico has fluctuated so often?

The largest Latino group in the United States is of Mexican ancestry.

The term Chicano was originally used by the dominant culture in a derogatory manner.

Mexican Americans remain a colonized minority group and have been systematically excluded from opportunities for upward mobility by institutional discrimination and segregation.

Among Hispanics Americans, English fluency ______.

Mexican immigrants, both undocumented and legal, exist at the same level of poverty they would have experienced if they lived in Mexico.

Federal policy toward immigration from Mexico ______.

The poverty rate for Cubans is much lower than the rate for Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

According to the text, Dominican American households, in comparison to other Hispanic groups, are more likely to be headed by women.

During the 20th century, immigration from Mexico to the United States ______.

Hispanic Americans are partly an ethnic minority group (i.e., identified by cultural characteristics, such as language) and partly a racial minority group (identified by their physical appearance).

Hispanic immigration is a highly contested topic in contemporary racial discourse. Analyze the trends in immigration from Mexico and the rest of Latin America, including the factors that create immigration patterns and processes of inclusion and exclusion for immigrants in the United States.

The 1980s legislation that allowed illegal immigrants to legalize their status as immigrants was ______.