Exam 14: Race and Ethnicity

A minority is defined as a category of people who are

Typically,people who live in _____ perceive fewer racial categories than people who live in _____.

Of all categories of Asian Americans,Japanese Americans have the highest average income.

Sociologically speaking,a minority is any category that is numerically less than half of a society's population.

Discrimination is an unfair belief about an entire category of people.

Which of the following concepts refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people?

WASPs have been the dominant category of the U.S.population through most of this nation's history.

Native Americans gained the right to U.S.citizenship in

Pluralism is the idea that all people should live with their own kind.

The U.S.Supreme Court outlawed slavery in the Dred Scott case of 1857.

The United States is not truly pluralistic because

Significant immigration of Asian Americans to the United States was first sparked by

Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton documented which of the following patterns in U.S.inner cities?

Arab Americans come from more than twenty different nations in Northern Africa and the Middle East.

The largest Hispanic minority,in terms of population,is Cuban Americans.

Some "white" people actually have darker skin than some "black" people.

Scapegoat theory holds that the most powerful people in a society are the most likely to hold prejudices.

People who are called "WASPs" have ancestors from which country?

A good example of the culture theory of prejudice is

While prejudice is a matter of _____,discrimination is a matter of _____.