Exam 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color

The most recent (2016) FBI report on hate crimes indicated that in the previous year there was a decrease in anti-Latino hate crimes.

Racist mascotization undercuts the ability of American Indian Nations to depict truthful and respectful images of their culture and spirituality.

Generally, the white-imposed racial continuum runs from:

Describe workplace discrimination experienced by Asian Americans.

In some geographical areas with substantial numbers of Latino and Asian immigrants, such as Texas and California, the Latino and Asian American communities are much larger, and play a more significant role in interracial relations than elsewhere. What is life like in such places for Latino Americans and Asian Americans?

Mongolian, a racial slur:

James Phelan, who represented California in the U.S. Senate from 1915 to 1921, claimed that Chinese immigrants were a threat to the "future" of the white race, U.S. institutions, and Western civilization.

Interracial marriages are increasing in number and are no longer a modest proportion of all marriages.

Among Mexican Americans, movements like ____________ have pressed for an end to discrimination.

Describe anthropologist Jane Hill's analysis of whites' online reactions to organized Native American objections to a white-racist name for one Arizona mountain - "Squaw Peak."

Describe the racial framing and institutionalized discrimination directed at intermediate racial groups.

Describe the recent research study that examined how white children and white adults categorized some multiracial (white and black ancestry) individuals in the absence of knowledge about the mixed-race ancestry of those individuals. Do the study's results support an optimistic view of a post-racial U.S. in the near future?

A rare recent study established that health disparities between ___________ and lighter-skinned Latinos strongly mirrored those between non-Latino black and white Americans.

Recent research shows that many whites who remain in areas now becoming more racially diverse seek out interracial interactions.

How do whites use intermediate placement and status to protect the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing white racial frame?

Pan-Asian civil rights groups have forcefully asserted Asian American interests and concerns about the racial discrimination and marginalization they face from whites, including:

______________ are ignored in most health equity studies.

For centuries now, a substantial majority of whites have generally viewed the U.S. in white-and-black terms.

Only in World War II, when China was a U.S. military ally, were Chinese immigrants - and then only 105 a year - again allowed to legally enter the U.S.

_______________ is a dehumanizing term to denote a child born to a noncitizen mother in a country which has birthright citizenship, especially when viewed as providing a benefit to family members pursuing legal residency or secure citizenship.