Exam 6: Ethnicity and Race

The Basque people, one of Europe's most distinctive ethnic groups, have maintained a strong ethnic identity and a language that is unrelated to any other known language.Which of the following was a result of the forced assimilation campaign to ban speaking and using Basque in print?

Which of the following statements about purported attempts to assign humans to discrete racial categories based on common ancestry is true?

Multiculturalism emphasizes the need for a series of cultures to abandon their old ethnic identities and join together to forge a new and unique cultural identity.

Describe the political aspect of ethnicity.Give examples.How is multiculturalism an attempt to depoliticize ethnicity? (Start with a careful definition of what you mean by political.)

In the early 20^th century, the anthropologist Franz Boas described changes in skull form among the children of Europeans who had emigrated to North America.He found that the reason for these changes could not be explained by genetics.His findings underscore the fact that

The term hypodescent refers to individuals who are racially pure.

Is it contradictory to say that membership in an ethnic group is an ascribed status while arguing that we negotiate our social identities? Why or why not? How do we occupy multiple social statuses?

Host countries that emphasize assimilation tend to encourage minority ethnic groups to retain their identities.

Which of the following statements about the concept of race in Brazil is NOT true?

What are the major differences between the Brazilian and U.S.systems of racial classification?

What term refers to an organism's evident traits, or its "manifest biology?"

Which of the following statements about ethnicity is true?

The term nation has been used to refer to an ethnic group that shares a religion, language, history, territory, ancestry, and kinship.

Populations in equatorial Africa and Papua New Guinea are quite similar phenotypically, dark skinned with similar hair and facial features.How would the existence of a typical racial model explain these similarities? How would evolutionary biology's explanation differ? Which model does a better job of explaining the data?

Racial categories in Brazil are not rigid; rather, they often change depending on the social setting.

Interracial, biracial, and multiracial identities are becoming more and more common in the United States.

In theory, a biological race is a geographically isolated subdivision of a species.Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks such races because

As the post-World War II framework of nations-the former Soviet Union and the socialist and non-socialist countries of eastern Europe and Asia-disintegrates, multiculturalism based on the U.S.and Canadian examples is becoming increasingly popular.

According to Fredrik Barth's theories about ethnic identity, ethnic boundaries are most stable when

Which of the following is a major difference between Brazilian and U.S.racial taxonomies?