Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

Slavery continued in the South until 1863,when the practice was abolished by the:

Native Americans are the most disadvantaged racial or ethnic group in the United States in terms of income,employment,housing,nutrition,and health.

Between 1880 and 1920,__________ Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States and settled in the Northeast.

A football coach dislikes African Americans but still hires black players because he thinks they will enhance the team's ability to win.According to sociologist Robert Merton's typology of prejudice and discrimination,this coach is a(n):

Apply the functionalist perspective on race and ethnic relations.

__________ are the largest segment (approximately two-thirds) of the Hispanic population in the United States.

Inequalitarian pluralism describes a situation in which specific ethnic groups are set apart from the dominant group and have unequal access to power and privilege.This pattern is referred to as:

__________ examine how microlevel contacts between people may produce either greater racial tolerance or increased levels of hostility.

__________ live primarily in the Southeast,especially Florida.As a group,they have fared somewhat better than other Latino/as because many were affluent professionals and businesspeople who fled their homeland after Fidel Castro's 1959 Marxist revolution.

Historically,stratification based on race and ethnicity has pervaded all aspects of political,economics,and social life.Consider sports as an example.Even after __________ broke the "color line" in 1947 to become the first African American in Major League Baseball,his experience was marred by racial slurs,hate letters,and death threats.

The split-labor market theory refers to the division of the economy into two areas of employment,a privatization sector or upper tier,composed of higher-paid (usually subordinate group) workers in more secure jobs,and a tertiary sector or lower tier,composed of lower-paid (often superordinate group) workers in jobs with little security and hazardous working conditions.

In the coldest part of the winter of 1832,over half of the Cherokee Nation died during or as a result of their forced relocation from the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory in __________.

To sociologists,a __________ is one that is advantaged and has superior resources and rights in a society.

Sociologists Michael Omi and Howard Winant suggest that the U.S.government has shaped the politics of race through:

Today,sociologists emphasize that race is a socially constructed reality,not a biological one.From this approach,the social significance that people accord to race is more significant than any biological differences that might exist among people who are placed in arbitrary categories.

Recent publicity about celebrities of mixed-race heritage,such as the golfer Tiger Woods,together with the change in the way that the Census Bureau asks about race,may lead more people to identify themselves as having more than one racial heritage.

Explain the major theories of prejudice and provide a discussion on how prejudice is measured.

Internal colonialism occurs when members of a racial or ethnic group are conquered or colonized and forcibly placed under the economic and political control of the dominant group.Groups that have been subjected to internal colonialism remain in subordinate positions longer than groups that voluntarily migrated to the United States.

Explain the terms prejudice,stereotypes and racism.

__________ is a set of attitudes,beliefs,and practices that is used to justify the superior treatment of one racial or ethnic group and the inferior treatment of another racial or ethnic group.