Exam 1: Exploring Race and Ethnicity

In 1900, African American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois called attention to the overwhelming importance of ________ throughout the world.

In sociology, minority refers to the ________ group.

The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups is called ________.

African American studies scholar Molefi Kete Asante has called for an Afrocentric perspective that ________.

The ________ was the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.

The idea of biological race is based on the mistaken notion of a ________.

According to the spectrum of intergroup status, which of the following relationships is more tolerant to the subordinate group?

Which of the following statements is true of segregation?

When belief in the inheritance of behavior patterns is coupled with the feeling that certain groups are inherently superior to others, it is called ________.

A(n) ________ is a subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than do members of a dominant group.

List and explain the five characteristics of a minority or subordinate group.

Membership in a dominant or minority group is ________.

Discuss the five functions that racial beliefs serve for the dominant group in accordance with the functionalist perspective.

Which of the following sentences best represents the sociological concept of minority?

In the context of consequences of subordinate-group status, the equation A + B + C → A + B + C describes ________.

Discuss the Afrocentric perspective.

Opponents of the Afrocentric perspective see it as ________.

Which of the following statements is true of colonialism?

Which of the following factors distinguishes ethnic minority groups from the dominant group?

In the context of consequences of subordinate-group status, what does D represent in the equation A+ B+ C → D?