Exam 14: Race and Ethnicity

Why do various racial and ethnic categories of the U.S. population have different social standing? Why do some categories surpass the national average in income, while others do not? Consider both cultural patterns linked to a category as well as the operation of the U.S. economy.

Prejudice and discrimination can reinforce one another.

List and define four patterns of minority and majority interaction.

Which of the following concepts refers to biological reproduction by people of different racial categories?

Based on research using the social distance scale, you can correctly say that U.S. college students today:

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

Write an essay critically evaluating affirmative action as a social policy. Begin with a look at the Controversy & Debate box (

When the first Europeans arrived in the Americas in the fifteenth century, Native Americans:

The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of:

Racial segregation has existed, but it has never been legal in the United States.

Historically, WASPs dominated the United States until about:

The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of:

All members of a minority category are poor.

Assimilation refers to the pattern by which:

According to T. W. Adorno's authoritarian personality theory, prejudiced people:

Define race and ethnicity. How do they differ?

The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed slavery in the Dred Scott case of 1857.

The idea that prejudice and discrimination form a vicious cycle means that:

For Chinese immigrants, one consequence of living in Chinatowns was _____.

Human beings are all: