Exam 16: Race and Ethnicity

WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) culture is predominant in the United States.

Racist views during World War II were responsible for:

"Scientific racism" was used to:

Anthropologists have helped dismiss the notion of clearly bounded, racially-distinct populations of humans.

Two-thirds of African Americans subsist at or below the poverty level.

Non-voluntary or forced cultural assimilation of a minority group by a government is termed:

The model of ethnicity in which boundary markers such as language, clothing, or other traits are not based on deeply-rooted, enduring connections to an ethnic identity is called the:

The majority of legal immigrants admitted to the United States in the early 1980s came from:

Assimilation between ethnic groups is not dependent on similarities of physical or cultural characteristics.

All humans categorize race and ethnic groups in the same cognitive manner.

Anthropologist Franz Boas discovered a link between physical characteristics and culture.

What actions did German, Irish, Italian, and Polish immigrants take to overcome racial discrimination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

Since the 19th century, there has been a tendency in the U.S. to classify offspring of racially-mixed couples as belonging to the race of the parent with the lowest racial status. This is called the:

Select an ethnic group with which you are familiar and compare objective aspects of their culture to subjective aspects.

The confusion between the concepts of "race" and "culture" has been a fundamental misconception in the Western worldview.

Compare the experiences of the German and Irish immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century with immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century.

Which of the following is not a pattern of ethnic interaction?

Modern anthropological concepts of ethnicity take into consideration both:

An example of biological assimilation is:

The famous American anthropologist subjected scientific racist beliefs to rigorous testing and evaluation; he found that there are no superior or inferior races.