Exam 6: Race and Racism

Malaysians divide people into three "biological" groups, Brazilians have more than three hundred, and Americans divide people into three, four, or even five of these groups called:

Explain how European colonial expansion gave rise to "race" and racism.

What is described in the text as "an invisible package of unearned assets" that are the legacy of generations of racial discrimination?

After the Civil War, many states passed laws mandating the segregation of American citizens of European and African descent. These policies were known as:

Compare and contrast how "races" have been constructed in two different cultures discussed in the text. What similarities are there, and how are they different? What does this tell us about the concept of "race" in general?

When a person acts on personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminates against someone based on imagined differences between them, this is referred to as:

Despite different societies' efforts to divide people into different biologically discrete groups, genetic evidence shows that human variation is:

The experience of the African American community of Corona, New York, who prevented developers from degrading their neighborhoods with an elevated train, is an example of:

The specific inherited genetic patterns of a person or organism are called its:

Explain how and why "Jim Crow" came to the American South.

What comprises all of the inherited genetic factors that provide the framework for an organism's physical form?

A marriage between a white person and someone of an "inferior race" was referred to as:

All human beings of every "race" share what percentage of their DNA?

The tendency of people of European descent in the United States to favor people like themselves and give them the benefit of any doubt is known as:

Explain the concept of "racialization" and how it applies to Middle Eastern people in the United States.

Compare and contrast the concepts of individual racism with institutional racism. Provide examples from the class to support your points.

Geneticists point out that dividing people by skin color is as logical as dividing them by:

The way genes are expressed in a person's physical form as the result of genotype interaction with environmental factors refers to that person's:

Identify three reasons why anthropologists feel that the concept of "race" is a flawed system of classification, and give an example to support each reason.

What rule assigns the children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group?