Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

The American Indian Movement (AIM) has aggressively resisted:

Over time, white Americans came to distinguish Chinese immigrants from African Americans. While both groups were framed as lazy, devious, or criminal, Chinese Americans were additionally stereotyped as _____________.

Between 1878 and the 1920s, numerous U.S. courts examined applications for naturalization from members of Asian groups. Describe the courts' decisions.

Conforming to avoid white discrimination, _______________ is the practice of altering information on resumes that indicates a person of color's race.

Describe the adaptation and application by white workers and their allies of negative racist stereotypes, images, and epithets to describe Chinese workers, which were already used in the dominant white racial frame to defame black Americans.

You are doing a presentation with a friend from your class titled, "Whitening: From Minority Status to Majority Status?" The friend is keen to focus on arguments concerning Latino and Asian Americans blending into the dominant white group, including via the growing percentage of interracial marriages involving whites and Latinos or Asian Americans. Explain to your friend that such arguments are debatable and frequently refuted by social science data. Be sure to include recent surveys cited in Chapter 8 that strongly suggest that substantial majorities of white Americans are not yet incorporating the major groups of color into a white, or even near-white, category.

Discrimination against Latinos is particularly commonplace in __________ and __________ areas.

Latino students who are first-generation immigrants tend to be more optimistic than native-born Latino students about racial discrimination on and around historically white college campuses.

Conservative white legislators have tried to pass a so-called ________________, which requires one parent of a U.S.-born child to be a citizen or legal resident for that child to gain citizenship.

Researchers recently examined hiring in Silicon Valley firms and found representation of Asian Americans among tech executives to be high.

Puerto Rican Americans in the 1800s and early 1900s were brought into the highly racialized U.S. system often to be exploited for their labor.

Middle- and upper-class Asian and Latino Americans (and some other Americans of color), who are placed by whites into an intermediate or near-white societal status, or seek that status for themselves, endure various costs from such placement. One such cost is self-deception. Explain.

A national survey found that Latino respondents were fairly confident that local police officers usually treat community residents fairly.

Describe how the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing white racial frame are observed in the racial framing of Asian immigrants as opposed to Mexican Americans.

Denial of racial bias is a common response to anti-Latino racism for many Latinos, especially those who are lighter skinned and in the middle or upper classes.

The white-racist system intentionally fosters racial stereotyping and hostility between groups of color.

___________ is a demographic group whose members are perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average.

In her interviews with parents of mixed-race children, researcher Sharon Chang found:

In a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, two-thirds of respondents, including majorities of whites, blacks, and Latinos reported all the following EXCEPT:

Latino full-time workers earn almost as much per week as comparable white workers.