Exam 9: Race

Your text mentions forms that minority-majority group relations can take: assimilation,pluralism,segregation,and conflict.Discuss each form and give examples.

Your text notes three ways that groups respond to domination: withdrawal,passing,and acceptance versus resistance.Discuss each one with examples.

Asians have been applauded for their smooth assimilation and are referred to as:

Under Johann Caspar Lavater's theory of ____________,people with light skin were thought to have higher intellect.

The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v.Ferguson upheld:

Which group,led by Sir Francis Galton,believed that negative traits such as criminality were passed through bloodlines and could be bred out?

Describe the definitions of race in ancient Egypt,Greece,Rome,and early Christendom.How do they compare to modern racial thinking among the European colonizers up to the present day?

Which of the following terms hinges on the belief that social and psychological traits can be traced through bloodlines and selectively bred out of (or into)populations?

According to Nell Irvin Painter,author of The History of White People,white people:

Which act formalized the exclusive definition of whiteness by imposing immigration restrictions based on a national origins quota system that limited the yearly number of immigrants from each country?

Swiss theologian Johann Caspar Lavater suggested that outside appearances were connected to inner virtues.According to him,which of the following features signified higher intellect and more worthy character?

Explain the difference between prejudice and discrimination.Describe Merton's diagram for explaining the intersections of prejudice and discrimination.Give examples of each cell.

Your text mentions five different ethnic groups: Native Americans,African Americans,Latinos,Asian Americans,and Middle Easterners.Discuss the diverse experiences of each group.

The differences between race and ethnicity underscore the privileged positions of ____________ in America,who have the freedom to pick and choose their identities and freely show their ethnic backgrounds.

When the term race comes up in America today,we usually think in two colors:

What is the group that displays no physical distinctions from Japanese citizens but is believed by the Japanese to be a descendant of a less-human race than the Japanese nation as a whole?

Most Arabs in the United States are not Muslim but ____________,and about 20 percent of U.S.Muslims are ____________.

Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather,it is:

How has whiteness evolved since the 1800s? Why is whiteness referred to as an "invisible knapsack of privileges"? What are some of the privileges that whites experience?

In the nineteenth century,theories of race moved from religious-based racism to: