Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

Opposition to Japanese immigration led to the infamous ______________ between the United States and Japan, whereby under U.S. government pressure the Japanese government cut off most immigration.

Define constructive blacks.

Whites who invaded northern Mexico in the early nineteenth century were typically not from the slaveholding South.

Historian Ronald Takaki has pointed out that at an early point, ___________ immigrants were often associated "with blacks in the racial imagination of white society."

Racial climates in historically white college settings are often hostile for Latino students.

In her/his recent study of the portrayals of Americans of South Asian descent in film and television, ____________ found common subplots, such as arranged marriages to contrast Indian cultural practices with white American ideas of romance.

Probably because it superficially appears to be positive, some Asian American youth have come to think of themselves and their group in terms of model-minority imagery.

As a presidential candidate and then president, Donald Trump put his racialized framing of Latinos into action:

Some social scientists have described Asian and Latino Americans as becoming white, including:

While over half the African American respondents in a major survey did not think that the proverbial American dream was available to their group, substantial majorities of the __________ respondents thought that the proverbial American dream was indeed available for their groups.

After World War II, Japanese Americans, including some who had been in U.S. concentration ("detention") camps, were less likely to be hired than African Americans in better-paying job categories in California.

Examples of recent anti-Spanish-language hostility and discrimination include: a woman booted from a Florida United Parcel Service (UPS) store for speaking Spanish; legal South American immigrants, including a child, physically attacked at a Canadian mall for speaking Spanish; and a rich Manhattan lawyer rebuking young workers for speaking Spanish. Drawing on the white racial frame, explain why these incidents are so plentiful.

Field interview research on Asian Americans suggests that most do not see themselves as white.

Describe anti-Latino hate crimes.

Some analysts have argued that social science researchers, government agencies, and the media give too little attention to the racial histories and discriminatory situations of groups such as Latino, Asian, and Native Americans and too much attention to the racial history and current situation of African Americans. According to Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, is this accurate? Drawing on Chapter 8, argue against the analysts' contention that too much attention is given to the racial history and current situation of African Americans.

Between 1983 and 2013, the median wealth of Latino households dropped by ___, as compared to a significant increase in the median wealth of white households.

A research study examined more than 1000 comments posted at online forum sites about a long and important controversy over getting rid of one famous Native American "mascot," that of the University of North Dakota (UND)'s "Fighting Sioux" sports teams. Hostile commentators:

More than two-thirds of working-class Latino Americans in towns and cities in several southern states reported they had regularly been the victims of significant anti-Latino hostility and discrimination, including:

More recently, which of the following groups have been periodically accepted by whites as closer to the white than the black end of the old racial continuum.

Attempted conformity to Anglo-whiteness is an uncommon response to anti-Latino racism for many Latinos, especially those who are in the middle or upper classes.