Exam 11: Racial Inequality

Although the racial income gap is ________, the racial wealth gap is ________.

Overt conflict is most likely when the subordinate group attempts to alter the distribution of ________.

Before 1990, virtually all African Americans descended from people who were brought involuntarily to the United States before the slave trade ended in the nineteenth century.

Racial-ethnics are concentrated in the South and Southwest.

The largest percentage of Asian-Americans, 23 percent, are from Japan.

The job crisis in minority communities is related to privatization.

What is meant by the renaissance in American Indian communities?

What are the themes of institutional discrimination?

Moynihan (1967) claimed that the deterioration of the family was to blame for what he called the ________ that existed within black ghettos.

When age is used as a variable, research has discovered that the degree of inequality increases after the teenage years.

As racial minorities, each group encounters different forms of exclusion, but they generally remain at the lowest rungs of society.

Native Americans have less autonomy than at any time since the last century.

Conflict theories of prejudice and discrimination are similar to assimilation theories.

The social definition of race changes over time, a fact illustrated by the 2000 Census Report permitting people to record themselves in two or more racial categories.

Institutional discrimination may be unconscious and unintentional.

Cultural deficiency explanations hold that minorities are disadvantaged because of heritage, customs, and way of life.

How are minority employment patterns being affected by the restructuring of the American economy?

Minorities at all levels still earn less than Whites do due to racial discrimination in the labor force.