Exam 10: Ethnicity and Race

Soo Young is a fashion model who has difficulty getting work in the international modeling industry because of an industry-wide bias against fashion models who appear to be of non-European ancestry. This is an example of:

Following the defeat of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun in 1998, the U.S. Senate had:

Thinking in terms of fixed and inflexible categories, such as believing that all Muslims are religious fundamentalists, is best described as:

Which model best fits the experience of Switzerland?

According to the textbook, the transferring of ideas or emotions from their true source to another object is called:

Which group of Americans saw the most significant increase in household family income in the 1990s?

Driven by a series of potato famines, 1.5 million people migrated to the United States from ________ in the nineteenth century and settled mostly in ________ areas.

Which group has lived in the United States longer than all other immigrant groups besides Anglo-Saxons, yet faces the segregation and poverty that was only a transitional phase for the other groups?

What fraction of all families headed by African American or Latina women lives in poverty?

In 1735, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus grouped human beings into four basic categories-Europaeus, Americanus, Asiaticus, and Africanus. His assumption about these four groups was that:

In a short paragraph, explain the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality in the United States. Choose two of the following three perspectives in your response: 1) Robert Blauner; 2) William Julius Wilson; and 3) Douglas Massey and Nancy A. Denton. Which one do you think best explains the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality in the United States? Explain.

Due to the conflict in Syria, millions of people have been displaced, and 2.5 million have fled across borders into neighboring countries as refugees. This forced relocation of people from their original homeland is also known as:

Which statement is most consistent with the textbook's conclusions about race?

Who argued that race is of diminishing importance in explaining inequalities between whites and blacks?

Which Hispanic group is the largest in the United States?

The Holocaust was the systematic, planned destruction and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust is an example of:

Members of which Latino immigrant group are more likely to be educated and come from white-collar and professional backgrounds?

The term that describes the differences in human physical characteristics arbitrarily used to categorize large numbers of diverse individuals is:

The practice of keeping racial and ethnic groups physically separate is called:

Assimilation is defined as: