Exam 3: Race and Ethnicity

Which of the following is the world's oldest civil rights organization?

Which perspective suggests the need for more equal-status interracial contact with open dialogue about race and racism?

______ racism is a form of racism in which people of color buy into racist ideology that characterizes their own group as inferior.

What is the tokenistic fallacy? Provide an example to illustrate your answer.Describe two pieces of evidence that contradict the tokenistic fallacy.

Discuss the myth of the model minority.What minority group does this ideology pertain to? What types of stigma,discrimination,and prejudice do they face,and how is the stress from these incidents managed?

Racial inequalities are conditioned not only by gender but also by social class.

According to the 2010 U.S.Census,what percentage of Americans are considered non-Hispanic White?

The feminization of poverty can be attributed to which of the following?

______ is the ideology that suggests that Blacks possess a dual understanding of themselves as fully capable human beings as well as the majority group's perception of them.

______ is an individual's use of his or her own personal sphere of influence to affect social change.

Which of the following describes the widespread unemployment of African Americans due to deindustrialization?

The positive impact of interracial contact is increasingly negatively affected by which of the following?

A racial group that is not in the majority but is held up by the majority as a "positive" example of a minority can be defined as a ______.

______ is the prediction that the more intergroup contact Whites have with members of racial/ethnic minority groups,the less likely they are to be prejudiced.

Describe the general functional perspective on poverty and inequality.Then discuss three potential functions poverty can serve for a society.Finally,what is one important criticism of the functional perspective on poverty?

Which of the following is a type of racism that avoids overt arguments of biological superiority/inferiority?

Which most accurately describes DuBois's concept of the psychological wage?

______ is the modification of early 20th-century assimilation theory that challenges the traditional linear one-way progression.

Which best describes the misunderstanding that when a small number of individuals from a minority group become successful in a society,racism no longer exists in that society?

Foreign-born people who are raised in the United States from childhood are known as ______.