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

The experience of racism is so intense that African American women and men do not experience any intraracial gender tensions.

Which of the following is true of Black nationalism?

African Americans and other minority groups of color have been adversely affected by the national loss of jobs in the ______.

Most Americans agree that the Confederate flag is a symbol of racism.

According to the chapter text, secondary structural assimilation refers to integration in more public areas, such as the job market, schools, and political institutions.

The goals of the Black Power movement are akin to the concept of ______.

In a recent study on modern racism, respondents who attributed continuing racial inequality to either the lack of ability or the lack of motivation of African Americans also ______.

In a recent study on modern racism, the most commonly endorsed explanation for the continuing Black-White inequality was that ______.

Characterize the status of African Americans in terms of acculturation, secondary structural integration, and primary structural assimilation.

According to the chapter text, the most important reason for racial differences in adult incarceration rates since the 1980s is ______.

The Black middle class has decreased since the Reconstruction era.

Modern racism supports the idea that African Americans are inherently inferior based on biological differences.

Describe and explain modern racism. How does this form of prejudice differ from other forms? How does modern racism function to maintain racial inequality?

Middle-class standing is more precarious for African Americans than Whites because ______.

"Relations between dominant and minority groups change as the larger society changes." Apply this idea to American Black-White relations in the 20th century. How were African Americans in the South and North affected by industrialization and automation? Include a discussion on changing prejudices and discrimination, jobs, and residential patterns.

Public opinion polls suggest a trend toward pessimism regarding race relations in recent years.

Throughout Central and South America, social class is considered more important than race as a criterion for judging and ranking other people.

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision overturned the principle of ______, established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

The pluralistic themes of Black Power were a reaction to the failure of assimilation and integration of the 1950s and 1960s.

The solution to African American urban poverty lies in fundamental changes to the urban industrial economy and sweeping alterations in the distribution of resources and opportunities.