Exam 16: Race and Ethnicity

The United States continues to only allow white European immigrants across its borders.

In a controversial book entitled The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, the authors purportedly found a connection between genetic differences in the form of IQ scores and racial categories. Could differences in IQ scores among Euro Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans be explained logically in other, more culturally-defined ways?

Ethnic boundary markers include religion, dress, and language.

Ethnogenesis, the origin of an ethnic group, is:

Mohandas Gandhi in India, Jomo Kenyatta in East Africa, and Simon Bolivar in Latin America all mobilized new forms of:

An example of cultural assimilation is:

When minority ethnic groups want to resist cultural hegemony by the dominant ethnic group, they often try to secede and develop their own nation states. This is called a(n):

The "one-drop rule" of racial categorization was never used to classify Native Americans because:

Nazis originated the concept of racism.

Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States are NOT concentrated in the:

In your opinion, what steps can be taken in the post-9/11 climate of suspicion to prevent unfair discrimination against Arab Americans?