Exam 3: Recognizing Racism and Racial Inequalities

W.E.B. Dubois developed the concept of ______ to describe living with racial stereotypes an expectation in a racist society.

What is racism?

A small town has an annual African American beauty pageant. A White woman told the media, "I don't know why they need a pageant of their own. This sounds like reverse discrimination to me." The organizer of the pageant explained in an interview, "The pageant has been a tradition since our founder was excluded from an all-White beauty pageant in 1969." The pageant organizer states that the intent of the pageant is to encourage the development of ______ to protect against the negative effects of racism.

According to data from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since the ______ hate crimes have ______.

A sociology student asked why sociologists study race if race is not actually real. How would the professor answer?

What was the consequence of the 14th Amendment?

What was the purpose of the Naturalization Act of 1790?

Racial groups are identified by distinct genetic material unique to particular groups.

Which statistical fact is true about racial grouping?

Asian immigrants are a model minority that were not oppressed by U.S. government policy concerning citizenship and land ownership.

Which sociologist directed attention to studies of racial privilege?

Police patrol communities in a systematic fashion to cover them all equally.

Individuals who are currently overtly racist are ultimately responsible for racial injustice in our society.

Some people are not biased at all, while others are explicitly biased.

Colorblind racism assumes a system of equal opportunity.

W.E.B. Dubois recognized some positive aspects of double consciousness.

Explain the process of gentrification through an example or a hypothetical situation. Who, or which groups, benefit most from this process?

______ is a socially constructed identity based on various phenotypical markers.

How are racism and racial inequality harmful to everyone in society, even the dominant group?

Black Americans were legally able to own property with the passage of the ______.