Soci Quiz 9 RACE

What allows one to identify with a nationality without the rights and duties of a citizen?

Ethnocentrism classified nonwhites as abnormal and inferior to help justify:

Clifford Geertz used what term to describe the fact that ethnic ties remained even after people assimilated?

Under Johann Caspar Lavater's theory of ____________, people with light skin were thought to have higher intellect.

The concept of race:

Modern racial thinking developed in the mid-seventeenth century in parallel with three global changes. Which of the following is NOT one of these global changes?

Although we now know all humans are the same species, there is still an underlying belief that we can trace specific traits through:

An 1851 excerpt from Harper's Weekly magazine describes a certain racial group as lawbreaking, idle, thriftless, poor, and barbarian. What group is this excerpt describing?

About 35 percent of Muslims worldwide were born in:

The differences between race and ethnicity underscore the privileged positions of ____________ in America, who have the freedom to pick and choose their identities and freely show their ethnic backgrounds.

Which group believed that humans were one species, united under God?

In 1907, the United States barred immigration from what country, because its people were seen as a threat to the American-born labor force?

Which minority group has the highest percentage of males in prison?

During the 1950s, the United States began to focus more on cultural theories of race and ethnicity, thus rejecting:

The black ghetto was manufactured by whites through a set of deliberate, conscious practices. Which of the following is NOT one of the practices mentioned in your book?

Compared with 11 percent of the U.S. population as a whole, around 33 percent of Native Americans die before age:

When the term race comes up in America today, we usually think in two colors:

Muslims have recently (since 9/11) undergone a new racial identity, from being formally unnoticed as a group to being singled out for more discrimination. This is known as:

Robert Park's model explains the universally progressive pattern in which immigrants arrive, settle in, and achieve full assimilation in a newly homogeneous country. His model is called:

Nativists believed that restricting the immigration of certain groups would:

The genetic variation that corresponds with geographic origins is much ____________ than people commonly believe.

A society is pluralistic if no one ethnic group is statistically:

Which group believed that different races were distinct species?

Prejudice is to discrimination as thinking is to:

Which term refers to the more overt form of resistance through a movement such as revolution or genocide or through nonviolent protest?

Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather, it is:

African Americans often turn to ____________ when they are attempting to be accepted by the dominant group. This means acting differently with the dominant group.

Which term refers to the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal traits?

Which act formalized the exclusive definition of whiteness by imposing immigration restrictions based on a national origins quota system that limited the yearly number of immigrants from each country?

Johann Caspar Lavater suggested that outside appearances were connected to inner virtues. He tended to value:

During the mid-twentieth century in the United States, many blacks moved north to escape Jim Crow laws in the rural South. This resulted in:

In the nineteenth century, theories of race moved from religious-based racism to:

Although race has no deterministic, biological basis, it still:

Thoughts and feelings (usually negative) about an ethnic or racial group are referred to as:

The majority of Latinos in the United States have immigrated here within the last ____________ years.