Question 1

Explain how gender shaped the experiences of men and women in the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Accepted Answer

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Question 2

Although there has been some progress for African Americans, an urban underclass, barred from the mainstream economy, has become a prominent and perhaps permanent feature of the American landscape. This statement supports which theoretical perspective?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Noel hypothesis 
B)  the importance of the contact situation 
C)  Blauner's hypothesis 
D)  Myrdal's vicious cycle 
E)  the segmented assimilation perspective

Question 3

Which theory can be used to best explain poverty rates for households led by single Black women?

Accepted Answer

A)  Gordon's model of assimilation 
B)  intersectionality 
C)  Marxism 
D)  the Blauner hypothesis 
E)  the Noel hypothesis

Question 4

In which era might the situation of the African American community be characterized as structural pluralism combined with inequality?

Accepted Answer

A)  the antebellum South 
B)  the pre-WWII North 
C)  the modern civil rights movement 
D)  the Black Power movement 
E)  the early 21st century

Question 5

De jure segregation was a ______ form of group relations.

Accepted Answer

A)  pluralistic 
B)  fluid competitive 
C)  paternalistic 
D)  rigid competitive 
E)  modern

Question 6

The results of Royster's (2003) study suggest that access to jobs is controlled by social networks that are decidedly not open to everyone.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Because modern racists believe discrimination is no longer a factor, they use cultural explanations for the still-subordinate status of African Americans, which maintains inequality. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Accepted Answer

A)  Myrdal 
B)  Noel 
C)  Lenski 
D)  Blauner 
E)  Marx

Question 8

Which of the following leaders is most closely associated with the Black Power movement?

Accepted Answer

A)  Martin Luther King 
B)  A. Philip Randolph 
C)  Thurgood Marshall 
D)  Malcolm X 
E)  Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 9

According to the chapter text, in the study by Rockquemore and Brunsma (2008), the respondents who categorized themselves as having a transcendent identity insist that they should be seen as ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  individuals who can change as they move from group to group 
B)  biracial but are classified by others as Black 
C)  unique individuals and not placed in any racial category 
D)  exclusively Black or exclusively White and not biracial 
E)  mixed-race

Question 10

A recent trending news story documents a White woman calling the police on Black people for having a cookout at a park. This is an example of the phenomenon called ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  living while Black 
B)  modern racism 
C)  racial profiling 
D)  social distance monitoring 
E)  community policing

Question 11

Residential integration has increased rapidly since the end of Jim Crow segregation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Rosa Parks, a seamstress and NAACP member, is famous for ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White man 
B)  refusing to leave an all-White coffeehouse 
C)  being the first Black student to integrate an all-White school 
D)  founding the NAACP 
E)  founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Question 13

Which of the following is a factor that has increased Black political power?

Accepted Answer

A)  Black voters' generally higher turnout rates than Whites 
B)  movement to concentrated urban areas 
C)  voter identification laws 
D)  the election of the first Black president 
E)  movement to rural areas in the South

Question 14

Malcolm X was an advocate for autonomy and a pluralistic relationship with the United States.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Saenz studied the effect of concentrated urban poverty in ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  creating high crime rates 
B)  cutting residents off from key economic opportunities and services 
C)  forcing residents to create ethnic enclaves 
D)  requiring Black residents to integrate White neighborhoods 
E)  drawing in funding for development and social services

Question 16

The only notable contribution of the Black Panther Party is a framework for armed patrolling and monitoring of the police.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Race and masculinity combine to produce a level of fear of Black men for many White people.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The culture of poverty theory proves that the issue of urban poverty is due to female-headed families with "bad" or inappropriate work values.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

School integration was one of the most important goals of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The central tactics of the civil rights movement under Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized nonviolent direct action.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 5: African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism

Explain how gender shaped the experiences of men and women in the civil rights and Black Power movements.

Although there has been some progress for African Americans, an urban underclass, barred from the mainstream economy, has become a prominent and perhaps permanent feature of the American landscape. This statement supports which theoretical perspective?

Which theory can be used to best explain poverty rates for households led by single Black women?

In which era might the situation of the African American community be characterized as structural pluralism combined with inequality?

De jure segregation was a ______ form of group relations.

The results of Royster's (2003) study suggest that access to jobs is controlled by social networks that are decidedly not open to everyone.

Because modern racists believe discrimination is no longer a factor, they use cultural explanations for the still-subordinate status of African Americans, which maintains inequality. This observation would most likely be made by which social theorist?

Which of the following leaders is most closely associated with the Black Power movement?

According to the chapter text, in the study by Rockquemore and Brunsma (2008) , the respondents who categorized themselves as having a transcendent identity insist that they should be seen as ______.

A recent trending news story documents a White woman calling the police on Black people for having a cookout at a park. This is an example of the phenomenon called ______.

Residential integration has increased rapidly since the end of Jim Crow segregation.

Rosa Parks, a seamstress and NAACP member, is famous for ______.

Which of the following is a factor that has increased Black political power?

Malcolm X was an advocate for autonomy and a pluralistic relationship with the United States.

Saenz studied the effect of concentrated urban poverty in ______.

The only notable contribution of the Black Panther Party is a framework for armed patrolling and monitoring of the police.

Race and masculinity combine to produce a level of fear of Black men for many White people.

The culture of poverty theory proves that the issue of urban poverty is due to female-headed families with "bad" or inappropriate work values.

School integration was one of the most important goals of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

The central tactics of the civil rights movement under Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized nonviolent direct action.