Exam 8: Race and Ethnic Relations

During the 1992 Charlottetown Accord debates, in which Aboriginal self-government was proposed, many Aboriginal women advocated voting against the Accord.

Describe and explain the difference between civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism.

Which of the following supports the primordialist explanation of prejudice?

Airport security records from a large international airport were analyzed, and it was discovered that 80 per cent of the persons subjected to enhanced screening procedures and more stringent pre-boarding checks tended to be travellers who were Arab, Muslim, Black or Hispanic. What term would be used to describe this situation?

Which term is utilized to describe those who define the Québécois as possessing a particular history, culture, ancestry, and language?

A woman tells her husband, "I am going to hire Julie to clean the house because she is from Country X and immigrants from there are very hard workers." Which of the following is this woman reinforcing?

According to split labour market theory, which of the following is the most likely to discriminate?

Which of the following poses a problem for the Marxist position on race?

According to the text, the current trend toward renaming bands of Aboriginal peoples received its impetus from the federal government's attempt to instill tribal pride and thus reduce dependence on government coffers.

Which of the following statements best reflects Barker's concept of "new racism"?

Which of the following is an example of systemic discrimination?

Which of the following is an example of institutional racism?

What are the specific subjective approaches to ethnicity based upon?

In June 1939, the St. Louis ocean liner arrived off the east coast of Canada carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Germany. The Canadian government refused to allow them to enter Canada, since immigration policies restricted the entrance of people who were not white Anglo-Saxon Protestant or from the United Kingdom. What term describes this denial of entrance?

Overtly racist ideas concerning the perceived superiority and inferiority of specific groups are less common now than in the past. Describe and explain three forms of racism that occur more frequently in Canada in the twenty-first century.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s a young French Canadian man defied his parent's wish that he attend church, found a job in the provincial civil service, moved in with his girlfriend and never got married, and talked hopefully with like-minded people about Quebec becoming a nation unto itself some day. What term was later given to this young man's era in Quebec's history?

What are the two interrelated explanations for the lower earnings of visible minority male immigrants?

Damian is a member of a visible minority and has worked on the factory line for 10 years. He feels he deserves a chance as a manager. The last new manager hired was a man who had worked for the factory for only five years, but was Caucasian. Damian believes that he was passed over because of his skin colour. Which of the following does Damian believe he has experienced?

Ana Celia Zentella's research in the United States identified that Puerto Ricans are sometimes accused of "acting white." For example, this can happen when they learn to speak English without a Spanish accent or when they dress to fit into "corporate America." What aspect of ethnic identity do these Puerto Ricans demonstrate?

Indian was a label externally imposed on Canada's indigenous peoples. What factors have contributed to the renaming of Canada's indigenous population?