Exam 9: Race and Ethnicity

The identifiers Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, and Italian Americans refer to a person's __________.

Explain the key assumptions of conflict perspectives on racial and ethnic relations. Discuss at least two specific examples of approaches associated with conflict theory.

__________ assimilation involves a change in racial or ethnic self-identification on the part of an individual.

Describe critical race theory as an alternative perspective on racial and ethnic relations.

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) __________.

__________ is the term for a killing carried out by a group of vigilantes seeking revenge for an actual or imagined crime by the victim.

Describe theories of prejudice from the perspectives of psychology and symbolic interaction.

__________ assimilation occurs when members of subordinate racial or ethnic groups gain acceptance in everyday social interaction with members of the dominant group, but do not necessarily make close friends or intermarry.

__________ refers to the spatial and social separation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion.

In San Jose, California, managers of Denny's restaurants were instructed to implement policies designed to limit or discourage African American patronage. Applying the typology of Joe Feagin, these policies are an example of __________ discrimination​

Special education classes were originally intended to provide extra educational opportunities for children with various types of disabilities. However, critics claim that these programs have amounted to racial segregation in many school districts. Using the categories created by Feagin, these policies illustrate __________ discrimination.

__________ refers to the tendency to regard one's own culture and group as the standard, and thus superior, whereas all other groups are seen as inferior.

The theory of __________ states that racial and ethnic relations in the United States have been shaped to a large extent by actions and policies of the government.

Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States today.

The term __________ is used for people and groups that are blamed for societal problems (such as unemployment or an economic recession) over which they have no control.

A restaurant owner in the 1950s does not feel negatively toward African Americans but refuses to serve them in his restaurant because he fears that doing so would offend customers. According to Robert Merton's typology, the restaurant owner is a(n) _____.

Within sports, team mascots that depict Native Americans in beads and paint, wearing headdresses, and doing the "tomahawk" chop are examples of __________.

In sports, calling a player of color a derogatory name, participating in racist chanting during a sporting event, and writing racist graffiti in a team's locker room are examples of __________ racism.

__________ assimilation occurs when members of one group marry those of other social or ethnic groups.

Explain the symbolic interactionist contact hypothesis.