Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

According to the textbook,what was the intention of the movie Crash?

Segregation is the process by which a minority group blends into the majority population and eventually disappears as a distinct group.

Based on the example of Professor Peter Sandiford,which of the following characterizes the position of many people whose beliefs are challenged by contrary evidence?

Explain how the split labour market works,using an example.

Ethnic group membership tends to persist because of the emotional support it provides.Still,this is NOT an advantage of ethnicity.

Which of the following terms describes the actions of the British through the eighteenth century in India?

After "Canadian," what was the most populous ethnic group in Canada in 2008?

Ethnic group membership tends to persist because of the emotional support it provides.Still,this is NOT an advantage of ethnicity.

Which of the following Canadians would have the most ease and success choosing his race and ethnicity?

What are the advantages of claiming an ethnicity in Canada? How might these advantages shape a person's experiences?

In order to decrease the power of the union at the ABC Auto manufacturing plant,when contract talk broke down and the all white union workers went on strike,the management at ABC recruited,hired,and bussed in low-wage Mexican workers.What is this situation called?

When did slavery become illegal in Canada?

Based on its focus,split labour market theory is a variant of which major perspective?

Chinese men were brought in to Canada particularly to work on the most difficult and dangerous section of the Canadian Pacific Railway line.According to the textbook,how many Chinese workers died per 1.5 kilometres of railway track laid?

Explain what the authors of the textbook mean by this statement: "Change your social context and your racial and ethnic self-conception eventually changes too."

According to the textbook,the legacy of internal colonialism continues today to act as a barrier to which of the following?

According to the textbook,how were Aboriginal people depicted in Canadian school textbooks from the early to mid-twentieth century?

When was Canada's immigration policy liberalized to favour the economic situations of immigrants rather than their racialized characteristics?

What do we call the process where physical differences create a rationale for unequal treatment of a group,which results in people acting differently from one another,which leads to the creation of stereotypes about the unequally treated group,which leads to distinguishing groups based on differences,and so on?

Explain what a minority group is.