Exam 5: African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism

Most Black Power movement participants argued which of the following methods is best for empowering Black Americans?

The similarities in forms of marginalization experienced by the contemporary African American underclass and Black Southerners under de jure segregation reflect ______.

According to the chapter text, what is the most probable effect of past-in-present discrimination on the economic marginality of the Black middle class?

Contemporary wealth disparities caused by decades of housing discrimination is a form of ______.

Integration of schools through social class and race does not improve test scores but betters the educational experiences of students.

An example of ______ is when African Americans are incorporated into a society and have equal access to institutions such as government and schools.

The Black Power movement and the Nation of Islam encouraged full participation of Black women as leaders in their movements.

White nationalism ______.

Isolated Black neighborhoods were fertile grounds for the development of ______, which reject or invert the values of the larger society.

Until the mid-1960s, racial riots were nonexistent in the United States.

A period of prosperity in the 1960s reduced the intensity of intergroup competition and muted the sense of threat sparked by the civil rights movement. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Compare and contrast the civil rights and Black Power movements in terms of emergence, strategy, politics, and contributions. How do these movements relate to Black Lives Matter and other contemporary racial justice movements?

The Black Power movement supported Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideals of integration and assimilation.

The Nation of Islam and other Black Power groups distinguished between racial separation and racial segregation, with the former supporting empowerment and the latter supporting domination.

Urban unrest that occurred in the 1960s was a result of the success of the civil rights movement in ending de facto discrimination.

Modern racism is a form of blaming the victim; it sees the problem of inequality as the responsibility of minority groups and not the larger society.

The goals of the civil rights movement are akin to the concept of ______.

The civil rights movement in the South during the 1950s and 1960s relied on nonviolent, direct action as a primary strategy. Describe how this strategy worked. Why did this strategy succeed in the South? Why did it not succeed outside of the South?

How do people of multiracial descent define themselves today? How are they defined by others? What are the implications of these definitions?

Today, about half of all African Americans reside in the North.