Exam 6: Ethnicity and Race

What term does anthropologist Fredrik Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependence of those groups?

Biologists have rejected the idea of three great races-white, black, and yellow-largely because it fails to account for Native Americans.

Migration and rapid population growth are fueling multiculturalism in countries like the United States and Canada.

Colonialism often erected boundaries that corresponded poorly with preexisting cultural divisions.

What is hypodescent? Why is it an arbitrary rule of racial classification?

What is the term for ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status?

What is the term for the use of force by a dominant group to compel a minority to adopt the dominant culture?

Humanity (Homo sapiens) lacks distinct races, because human populations have not been isolated enough from one another to develop into discrete groups.

Which of the following statements about U.S.racial categories is true?

In 1998, the American Anthropological Association issued a statement on race.This statement makes all of the following points EXCEPT that

In Japan, the burakumin

Historically, scientists have approached the study of human biological diversity in two main ways: racial classification, which is now largely abandoned; and the current explanatory approach, which focuses on understanding specific differences.

Racial categories in Japan are more rigid than racial categories in Brazil.

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society.One way that anthropologists-and social scientists in general-do this is by studying status, which refers to

East Asians who have emigrated recently from India and Pakistan to northern areas of the United Kingdom have a higher incidence of rickets and osteoporosis than the general British population.This phenomenon illustrates that

What is an "imagined community?" Social roles such as ethnicity and nationality are important to this concept-explain how.

Phenotypic similarities and differences always have a genetic basis.

Human biological differences are evident only to individuals who wrongfully sustain the validity of human races.

Depending on the situation, the same man might declare "I'm Jimmy's father"; "I'm your boss"; "I'm African American"; or "I'm your professor." This phenomenon, whereby a person's claimed or perceived identity varies depending on context, is called

The election of Barack Obama to the U.S.presidency in 2008 has rekindled public discussion on race in the United States.How does this debate highlight the gap between "the gray" and "the brown?"