Exam 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change

Hochschild attributed the continued elusive racial bias that African Americans face in the United States to:

The theory of spatial assimilation claims that the more minorities assimilate,the more they would move into less segregated neighborhoods.

Which U.S.Supreme Court Case placed the burden of proof on employers with Affirmative Action?

The authors argue that many African Americans have moved slowly toward citizenship suffering more from ________ ________ than from old fashion racism.

In the riots that followed the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles,who were the primary targets of the rioters?

Which U.S.Supreme Court case disallowed race in consideration of undergraduate admissions in 2003 with Affirmative Action?

Large numbers of Blacks are unemployed,underemployed,or are employed at substandard wages.

Which decade saw a calming of the civil rights activism?

Black-White intermarriages have been ________ in recent decades.

President John F.Kennedy's Civil Rights reform program was passed in 1974 as the Civil Rights Amendment.

All of the following were used against the peaceful protesters in Alabama except:

The Rodney King and O.J.Simpson cases and racial profiling bring up the issue of racial injustice in the administration of criminal law.

The legislation of 1964 and 1965 marked:

A poll of Americans after the Rodney King beating trial said that the verdict would have been the same had every one been White (King and policemen).

All of the following corporations had major discrimination suits brought against them except:

Briefly summarize the legal orders,cases,and rulings that lead up to the 2003 Michigan cases with Affirmative Action.

Nearly one in ________ Black families was affluent in the United States in 1989.

Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X to drop his slave master's name.

Hallinan and Williams (1989) reported that in over one million high school friendship pairs, only a few hundred were interracial.

This Civil Rights activist argued that the United States should set aside territory for Blacks or send them back to Africa.