Exam 9: Race and Ethnicity.

Native Americans are the most disadvantaged racial or ethnic group in the United States in terms of income, employment, housing, nutrition, and health. They also have high rates of tuberculosis, alcoholism, and suicide.

Define prejudice, discrimination and racism. What kinds of things would you recommend in order to achieve lower levels of prejudice in the U.S.?

Overt discrimination in sports occurs when whites are described as having the intelligence, dependability, and leadership and decision-making skills needed in positions requiring higher levels of responsibility and control.

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 also referred to as __________.

Examples of __________ include the killing of thousands of Native Americans by white settlers in North America and the extermination of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany.

Distinguish between assimilation and ethnic pluralism and explain why both are functionalist perspectives on racial and ethnic relations.

__________ is blatant and may take the form of public statements about the "inferiority" of members of a racial or ethnic group.

__________ assimilation occurs when members of an ethnic group adopt dominant group traits, such as language, dress, values, religion, and food preferences.

According to sociologist Robert Blauner, groups that have been subjected to __________ remain in subordinate positions longer than groups that voluntarily migrated to the United States.

__________ is still prevalent in many U.S. cities; owners, landlords, real estate agents, and apartment managers often use informal mechanisms to maintain their properties for "whites only."