Exam 7: Race and Ethnicity

The "underground railroad," was a network whose endpoint was Canada. Which of the following was smuggled along this "railroad"?

According to the textbook, why are Koreans in Japan more likely than Koreans in Canada to pursue careers in sports?

Symbolic interactionists emphasize that racial and ethnic identities and labels emerge from a process of cultural maturation.

A weakness of internal colonialism and split labour market theories is that they ignore which of the following?

Research supports the argument that, in Canada, culture by itself is unimportant in determining the economic success of racial or ethnic groups.

Describe how some of the modern Quebec-Canada tensions are an outcome of internal colonialism.

Which of the following phrases did John Porter, one of the founders of Canadian sociology, use to describe Canada's ethnically and racially stratified society?

Which of the following has as its consequence the prevention of assimilation of colonized groups through segregation of jobs, housing, and social contacts?

Prejudice and discrimination are defined as the unfair treatment of people because of their group membership.

The Mi'kmaq, the Coast Salish, and the Mohawk are all examples of which of the following in Canada?

Why did Malcolm X think it didn't matter to a racist whether a person of African origin is a professor or a panhandler?

What is the definition of colonialism?

When race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels, everyone is free to choose their race or ethnic identity.

Learning from the history of relations between the British and the French in Canada, which of the following areas of public life is the best to control if a group wishes to hold power over another?

Why did Asian immigration to Canada resume on a large scale in the 1960s?

The Beothuk are widely considered to have been the Aboriginal group that has been most able to resist the Canadian government's assimilationist policies.

In a famous speech, American Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King said that Canada was known as the North Star by African Americans seeking to escape slavery. Escaped slaves organized a secret network of safe houses and tunnels which allowed the runaway slaves to eventually find their way to Canada, which had outlawed slavery. Canada was the North Star because Canada was to the North. What was the name of this secret network?

According to the text, which of the following is an advantage of continued ethnic group membership among white European groups?

Describe the Québécois Quiet Revolution and the calls for Quebec sovereignty as responses to Quebec's ethnic stratification.

Which of the following can be thought of as a catalyst for the upsurge in Quebec nationalism in the 1960s?