Question 1

What does Chapter 5 identify as a "new tactic of white fight?"

Accepted Answer

A) flying the Confederate flag 
B) moving into renewed urban centers 
C) creating new sundown towns 
D) passing English-only ordinances 
A) flying the Confederate flag 
B) moving into renewed urban centers 
C) creating new sundown towns 
D) passing English-only ordinances D

Question 2

What do the textbook authors mean when they say certain groups may suffer the "blemish of place"? Give two examples of groups that suffer from the blemish of place.

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary and should include the following: The "blemish of place" is a stigma faced by people that live in poor,isolated areas.These areas carry stereotypes about their residents,so that all people that live in that area are stereotyped to that place.Examples are poor white residents of trailer parks the "redneck" or "white trash" stereotype of ignorance and bigotry)and black residents of urban ghettos the stereotype of ignorance and violence).

Question 3

How much has public housing inventory fallen since 1991?

Accepted Answer

A) 40 percent 
B) 20 percent 
C) None;public housing inventory has remained stable 
D) None;public housing inventory has actually increased since 1991 
A) 40 percent 
B) 20 percent 
C) None;public housing inventory has remained stable 
D) None;public housing inventory has actually increased since 1991 B

Question 4

As the children of Jewish shopkeepers assimilated into whiteness and took leave of their families' shops in the inner city,what immigrant group has often stepped in to take their place,particularly in black ghettos?

Accepted Answer

A) Japanese 
B) Filipinos 
C) Vietnamese 
D) Koreans 
A) Japanese 
B) Filipinos 
C) Vietnamese 
D) Koreans

Question 5

Where have almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s settled?

Accepted Answer

A) rejuvenated city centers 
B) an integrated urban neighborhood 
C) urban ethnic enclaves 
D) the suburbs 
A) rejuvenated city centers 
B) an integrated urban neighborhood 
C) urban ethnic enclaves 
D) the suburbs

Question 6

How did the "hyperghetto" form?

Accepted Answer

A) Legalized segregation forced all blacks into one geographical area. 
B) Urban renewal created overcrowded slums full of only low-income families. 
C) Redlining prevented ghettos from any type of urban renewal,so the low-income areas just kept declining. 
D) Middle- and upper-class blacks fled the ghetto after legal segregation was overturned,leaving only low-income families. 
A) Legalized segregation forced all blacks into one geographical area. 
B) Urban renewal created overcrowded slums full of only low-income families. 
C) Redlining prevented ghettos from any type of urban renewal,so the low-income areas just kept declining. 
D) Middle- and upper-class blacks fled the ghetto after legal segregation was overturned,leaving only low-income families.

Question 7

Which of the following represents a symbolic cost of segregation?

Accepted Answer

A) Segregation creates the appearance that racial divisions are real,natural,and unchanging. 
B) Politicians neglect nonwhite neighborhoods. 
C) Nonwhite areas are often far from normal institutions such as hospitals,banks,and grocery stores. 
D) Low income areas have much smaller education budgets. 
A) Segregation creates the appearance that racial divisions are real,natural,and unchanging. 
B) Politicians neglect nonwhite neighborhoods. 
C) Nonwhite areas are often far from normal institutions such as hospitals,banks,and grocery stores. 
D) Low income areas have much smaller education budgets.

Question 8

Which of the following factors contributed to the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

A) the lack of sharecropping opportunities in the South;the improvement of sharecropping conditions in the North 
B) an increase in European immigration to the South following WWI;job shortages in the South 
C) a decrease in Jim Crow segregation in the South;wage equality in the North 
D) job shortages in the South due to a decline in the price of cotton;job vacancies in the North due to a decrease in European immigration 
A) the lack of sharecropping opportunities in the South;the improvement of sharecropping conditions in the North 
B) an increase in European immigration to the South following WWI;job shortages in the South 
C) a decrease in Jim Crow segregation in the South;wage equality in the North 
D) job shortages in the South due to a decline in the price of cotton;job vacancies in the North due to a decrease in European immigration

Question 9

What are two reasons that black urban neighborhoods were more decayed than white neighborhoods?

Accepted Answer

A) There were often lower standards for care in the neighborhood;homeowners had a lack of resources. 
B) Residents often had less knowledge about home-ownership;they were less concerned about their homes. 
C) Black neighborhoods often had the oldest housing stock in need of most repair;homeowners could not receive loans to improve their properties. 
D) Homeowners could not receive loans to improve their properties;they were less concerned about their homes. 
A) There were often lower standards for care in the neighborhood;homeowners had a lack of resources. 
B) Residents often had less knowledge about home-ownership;they were less concerned about their homes. 
C) Black neighborhoods often had the oldest housing stock in need of most repair;homeowners could not receive loans to improve their properties. 
D) Homeowners could not receive loans to improve their properties;they were less concerned about their homes.

Question 10

How do lack of housing assistance,stagnating incomes at the bottom of the wage distribution,and rising housing costs affect racial inequality?

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary and should include the

Question 11

What events prompted the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act?

Accepted Answer

A) John F.Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent urban uprisings 
B) the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the election of Lyndon B.Johnson 
C) the assassinations of John F.Kennedy and Martin Luther King,Jr. 
D) the assassination of Martin Luther King,Jr. ,and the subsequent urban uprisings 
A) John F.Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent urban uprisings 
B) the passage of the Voting Rights Act and the election of Lyndon B.Johnson 
C) the assassinations of John F.Kennedy and Martin Luther King,Jr. 
D) the assassination of Martin Luther King,Jr. ,and the subsequent urban uprisings

Question 12

Facing high levels of environmental hazards,being isolated from economic opportunities,neglected by political leaders,and feeling stigmatized by a "blemish of place" are common experiences by residents of what two types of neighborhoods?

Accepted Answer

A) renovated city centers and the suburbs 
B) poor,rural white areas and the suburbs 
C) the suburbs and the ghetto 
D) the ghetto and poor,rural white areas 
A) renovated city centers and the suburbs 
B) poor,rural white areas and the suburbs 
C) the suburbs and the ghetto 
D) the ghetto and poor,rural white areas

Question 13

Similar to poor blacks living in urban ghettos,poor whites living in rural trailer parks often suffer from what?

Accepted Answer

A) the "redneck stigma" 
B) the "stigma of the poor" 
C) the "blemish of poverty" 
D) the "blemish of place" 
A) the "redneck stigma" 
B) the "stigma of the poor" 
C) the "blemish of poverty" 
D) the "blemish of place"

Question 14

Why are Native American reservations often the target of environmental racism,such as locations for dump sites and mining operations?

Accepted Answer

A) The taxes are too high for corporation dump sites in cities. 
B) Those living on the reservation do not care about the environment or their land. 
C) Reservations are not subject to state regulations about dumping. 
D) Native Americans do not believe that the proximity to this waste is harmful. 
A) The taxes are too high for corporation dump sites in cities. 
B) Those living on the reservation do not care about the environment or their land. 
C) Reservations are not subject to state regulations about dumping. 
D) Native Americans do not believe that the proximity to this waste is harmful.

Question 15

Which of the following life experiences has been linked to job loss,depression,residential instability,and relocating to poorer,more violent neighborhoods and is twice as likely to happen to women as men?

Accepted Answer

A) marriage 
B) eviction 
C) divorce 
D) incarceration 
A) marriage 
B) eviction 
C) divorce 
D) incarceration

Question 16

Explain two consequences of residential segregation,as identified in Chapter 5.

Accepted Answer

Answers will vary and should include two

Question 17

Which quadrant in the figure below represents zero segregation? Which quadrant represents the highest levels of segregation?

Accepted Answer

A) upper left;upper right 
B) upper right;lower right 
C) upper right;upper left 
D) upper right;lower left 
A) upper left;upper right 
B) upper right;lower right 
C) upper right;upper left 
D) upper right;lower left

Question 18

Which of the following directly contributed to white flight out of urban centers and into the suburbs?

Accepted Answer

A) industrialization 
B) the Civil Rights Movement 
C) federal government loan programs 
D) the Great Depression 
A) industrialization 
B) the Civil Rights Movement 
C) federal government loan programs 
D) the Great Depression

Question 19

What is one consequence of environmental racism?

Accepted Answer

A) disproportionately high rates of health problems such as cancer and lung disease 
B) lack of access to good jobs requiring an advanced education and providing benefits 
C) lack of opportunity for cultural enrichment 
D) access to only poor quality homes with unsafe structures 
A) disproportionately high rates of health problems such as cancer and lung disease 
B) lack of access to good jobs requiring an advanced education and providing benefits 
C) lack of opportunity for cultural enrichment 
D) access to only poor quality homes with unsafe structures

Question 20

Which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A) In U.S.cities,the typical white person lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent white. 
B) Hispanics are twice as likely as blacks and Asians to be isolated from other racial groups. 
C) African Americans in many metropolitan areas live in a condition of hypersegregation. 
D) The segregation levels of Asian ethnic groups vary by skin tone. 
A) In U.S.cities,the typical white person lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent white. 
B) Hispanics are twice as likely as blacks and Asians to be isolated from other racial groups. 
C) African Americans in many metropolitan areas live in a condition of hypersegregation. 
D) The segregation levels of Asian ethnic groups vary by skin tone.

What does Chapter 5 identify as a "new tactic of white fight?"

What do the textbook authors mean when they say certain groups may suffer the "blemish of place"? Give two examples of groups that suffer from the blemish of place.

How much has public housing inventory fallen since 1991?

As the children of Jewish shopkeepers assimilated into whiteness and took leave of their families' shops in the inner city,what immigrant group has often stepped in to take their place,particularly in black ghettos?

Where have almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s settled?

How did the "hyperghetto" form?

Which of the following represents a symbolic cost of segregation?

Which of the following factors contributed to the Great Migration?

What are two reasons that black urban neighborhoods were more decayed than white neighborhoods?

How do lack of housing assistance,stagnating incomes at the bottom of the wage distribution,and rising housing costs affect racial inequality?

What events prompted the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act?

Facing high levels of environmental hazards,being isolated from economic opportunities,neglected by political leaders,and feeling stigmatized by a "blemish of place" are common experiences by residents of what two types of neighborhoods?

Similar to poor blacks living in urban ghettos,poor whites living in rural trailer parks often suffer from what?

Why are Native American reservations often the target of environmental racism,such as locations for dump sites and mining operations?

Which of the following life experiences has been linked to job loss,depression,residential instability,and relocating to poorer,more violent neighborhoods and is twice as likely to happen to women as men?

Explain two consequences of residential segregation,as identified in Chapter 5.

Which quadrant in the figure below represents zero segregation? Which quadrant represents the highest levels of segregation?

Which of the following directly contributed to white flight out of urban centers and into the suburbs?

What is one consequence of environmental racism?

Which of the following statements is true?

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Exam 5: Housing

What does Chapter 5 identify as a "new tactic of white fight?"

What do the textbook authors mean when they say certain groups may suffer the "blemish of place"? Give two examples of groups that suffer from the blemish of place.

How much has public housing inventory fallen since 1991?

As the children of Jewish shopkeepers assimilated into whiteness and took leave of their families' shops in the inner city,what immigrant group has often stepped in to take their place,particularly in black ghettos?

Where have almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s settled?

How did the "hyperghetto" form?

Which of the following represents a symbolic cost of segregation?

Which of the following factors contributed to the Great Migration?

What are two reasons that black urban neighborhoods were more decayed than white neighborhoods?

How do lack of housing assistance,stagnating incomes at the bottom of the wage distribution,and rising housing costs affect racial inequality?

What events prompted the passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act?

Facing high levels of environmental hazards,being isolated from economic opportunities,neglected by political leaders,and feeling stigmatized by a "blemish of place" are common experiences by residents of what two types of neighborhoods?

Similar to poor blacks living in urban ghettos,poor whites living in rural trailer parks often suffer from what?

Why are Native American reservations often the target of environmental racism,such as locations for dump sites and mining operations?

Which of the following life experiences has been linked to job loss,depression,residential instability,and relocating to poorer,more violent neighborhoods and is twice as likely to happen to women as men?

Explain two consequences of residential segregation,as identified in Chapter 5.

Which quadrant in the figure below represents zero segregation? Which quadrant represents the highest levels of segregation?

Which of the following directly contributed to white flight out of urban centers and into the suburbs?

What is one consequence of environmental racism?

Which of the following statements is true?

Race in the Twenty-First Century

The Invention of Race

Politics

Economics

Crime and Punishment

Education

Aesthetics

Associations

Intimate Life

Toward Racial Democracy

Filters