Exam 11: Racial Inequality

Native Americans are an example of a racial-ethnic group.

Much of the public discussion about race and poverty rests on false assumptions about the defective nature of minorities, their ability, their values, and their cultures.

Marrying across racial lines is becoming more common.

The average family income for Whites is greater than the average income for Black and Hispanic families.

Individual racism refers to the established customary and respected ways in which society operates to keep the minority in a subordinate position.

Half of all hate crimes in the United States are committed by minority group members.

Two-thirds of American Latinos are Mexican-Americans.

By the middle of the twenty-first century, today's minorities will comprise nearly ___________ of the U. S. population.

Charles Murray claimed that the deterioration of the Negro family was to blame for the tangle of pathology that existed within Black ghettos.

________ is a major published work that claims that Blacks are mentally inferior to Whites and that genetic inferiority cannot be altered by environmental intervention.

When minority members are presented as inferior through legitimate avenues, such as the mass media, then the practice of ________ has occurred.

Racial-formation theory suggests that the mass media create prejudicial attitudes in children.

The cultural deficiency approach has been criticized because it blames society and ignores the personality constraints that deny certain groups the same opportunities that others have.

In the United States, both ________ and ________ serve to mark groups as different from the dominant group.

Discuss the factors that contribute to the minority education gap and the consequences of that gap on future life chances of certain sectors of the population.

David Wellman argues that it is not just the prejudiced beliefs of the majority, in particular lower-class Whites, that cause racism because even unprejudiced Whites defend the traditional arrangements that negatively affect minorities.

The size of the U.S. Latino population

________ groups are distinctive on the basis of national origin, language, religion, and culture.

The emergence of a college-educated Indian middle class has been described as a renaissance in many American Indian communities.

According to David Wellman, institutional arrangements such as the seniority system has been a cause of racism.