Exam 10: Race, Ethnicity, and Class: Understanding Identity and Social Inequality

For antidiscrimination activists and educators, it is usually enough to simply demonstrate the existence of prejudice and discrimination.

Which of the following is not true about ethnicity?

What social distinction classifies people according to descent?

What does it mean that race does and does not exist?

In early public records, the word Christian commonly appeared next to the names of Europeans but was later replaced by

How does racialization occur?

The social processes that make race part of the natural order of things-by producing theories, schemes, and typologies about human differences is

Anthropologists are interested in a situation like the way the new heart drug BiDil was created and approved because

One of Hortense Powdermaker's key insights about prejudice is that

When Americans recognize that people are born into a particular social position due to the economic situations of their families, they are recognizing the existence of

How does race become biology?

If you wanted to study ongoing racialization processes in the United States, you would most likely focus on

The social, economic, and political processes of transforming populations into races and creating racial meanings is called

If you were an antiracism educator in an elementary school in the United States, what role do you think anthropological insights about prejudice and discrimination should play in your work?

How would you apply the insights about biological variability in human populations described in the textbook in a public service announcement promoting racial equality?

A key feature of the theory of primordialism is that ethnic groups are created by powerful interest groups in a society.

What special insights do you think an anthropologist who studies racial relations in Latin America would have about US race relations?

Jim Crow laws in the US South after the Civil War are a good illustration of explicit discrimination.

Which of the following groups were considered nonwhite racial groups?

The "one drop rule" enlarged the slave population by