Exam 11: Racial Inequality

Compare racial-formation theory with systematic racism theory.

Conflict theorists contend that the United States is a land of opportunity and all groups will eventually be assimilated into the mainstream.

________ in the United States are not defined as having a racial status.

The American racial ________ has positive consequences for the status quo.

Differential systems of privilege and disadvantage are, according to Wellman, the determining feature of majority-minority relations.

David Wellman argues that the major cause of racism is

North American Indian tribes are very homogeneous with few differences in physical characteristics, language, and social organization.

Despite media attention, there is no definite evidence that racial groups differ in intelligence from the dominant race.

Once thought to be destined for extinction, the ________ population is today larger than it has been for centuries and comprises 2 percent of the U.S. population.

__________ is derived from superior numbers, technology, weapons, property, or economic resources.

By the middle of the twenty-first century, it is expected that racial minorities will comprise less than 10 percent of the American population.

Although many Asians arrive as well-educated middle-class professionals with highly valued skills and some mastery of English, the ________ are likely to be uneducated, impoverished, and with poor English skills.

Scientific evidence shows that race is not a biological category; what does exist is the ________ that it is.

________ explanations hold that minorities are disadvantaged by their heritage, customs, and way of life.

Bias theories are based on racialized opportunity structures in the United States.

Much of the public discussion about race and poverty rests on false assumptions about the defective nature of minorities that characterize ________ theories.

Today's Native American population is larger than it has been for centuries.

In The Bell Curve, Herrnstein and Murray claim that blacks are culturally inferior to whites but that inferiority can be altered by environmental intervention.

Unemployment statistics can be misleading because they count as employed people who work part-time because they can't find full-time work, and people who have given up their search for employment.

Because majority-minority relations operate basically as a ________ relationship, conflict (or the potential for conflict) is always present.