Exam 9: Race and Ethnicity

In the opening passage introducing the chapter,the author provides a synopsis of Miss Rivers' Lodge. How could professional people,especially doctors,justify the experiment in which they were engaged?

The massacre of Native Americans in the 1800s,the extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany,and the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda are all examples of ________.

The sense that better conditions are soon to follow which,if unfulfilled,increases frustration,is called ________.

Identify and describe the six major patterns of minority and dominant group relations.

What did Ezekiel suggest as the reason why some people are attracted to racist hate groups?

Ashley Montagu,a physical anthropologist,classified humans into ________ different racial groups.

Illustrate how and why people learn prejudice.

What is pluralism?

The practice the South employed after the Civil War to segregate blacks from whites was called ________.

The belief held by many African Americans that lighter skinned African American women are more attractive than those with darker skin is referred to as ________.

What is the Implicit Association Test?

In what ways do the lies promoted by racist leaders,as described in Down-to-Earth Sociology,"The Racist Mind," undermine constructive responses to social problems? Should there be laws passed to make such groups illegal?

How can someone practicing genocide maintain an image of being a good and moral person?

Why does William Julius Wilson believe that class,and not race,is the determining characteristic for African Americans being accepted by the dominant culture?

To understand the comparative conditions of Latinos,one must look at people's ________.

The split labor market and reserve labor force are most aligned with the symbolic interactionist perspective.

What is selective perception?

Prejudice describes ________ while discrimination describes ________.

What should the American government do about the Minutemen who patrol the Arizona-Mexican border? What are some of the worst-case scenarios of the Minuteman movement?

Provide at least one example of a society in which the numerical majority was a sociological minority and a much smaller racial group served as the dominant group.