Exam 8: Racial and Ethnic Inequality

Hurricane Katrina left thousands of racial minorities stranded in central city New Orleans without an adequate evacuation plan or emergency response.This social disaster highlights __________.

__________ is the sociohistorical process by which races are continually being shaped and transformed.

The group most likely to be without health coverage is __________.

Stopping all people who appear to be Muslim or Arab at the airport and flagging them for extra screening is an example of __________.

At least __________ college students are targets of racially motivated assaults each year.

As more minorities enter high-status jobs,they are confronted by new forms of discrimination in the form of __________ that limit their access to top-level jobs.

The funding of schools primarily based on property values systematically discriminates against the poor and is an example of __________ racism.

According to the text,rising poverty rates among Latinos have led many policymakers to conclude that they have joined inner-city African Americans to form a __________.

Malik is from Syria and has lived in the United States for over three decades.During that time,in a process known as __________,he has seen his racial category change from "Middle Easterner" to "Arab."

By the middle of the twenty-first century,minority groups will comprise about __________ percent of the U.S.population.

Which present-day group is descended from involuntary migrants to the United States?

Those who espouse a color-blind approach to understanding the world are __________ affirmative action policies.

Gains in __________ are resulting in narrowing the gap between White and Black families.

Which of the following groups has the lowest poverty rate?

A subordinate group in society is called a __________ group.

As compared to Whites,African Americans and Latinos are more likely to __________.

The Latino/a experience is uniformly the same for all.

The __________ theories postulate that racial groups differ in basic intelligence.

The authors assert that __________,which focuses on social conditions and not the morality of people,is the best way for us to understand racial impoverishment in U.S.inner cities.

What is the significance of the census allowing citizens to choose more than one racial category?