Exam 4: Emergence of the Us Racial Hierarchy

This refers to the belief that one's own culture or group's ways of doing things are superior to others and is one of the necessary conditions for racial/ethnic inequality to emerge.

President Jackson blatantly ignored a Supreme Court ruling in a dispute over land that favored the Cherokee, and he forcibly relocated them with use of the U.S. military.

The world has not always been "raced;" meaning societies have not always been organized along the lines of physical features such as skin color with economic, political, social, and psychological rewards awarded or denied along such lines.

Capitalism as an economic system emerged in conjunction with ________, the European contact with and exploitation and domination of the Native peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Which of the following is a way white workers have been able to maintain a split labor market and secure a dominant position in the labor market for themselves?

When was the international slave trade abolished by United States Congress?

Slave owners used which of the following justifications for their role in "breeding" more slaves with slave women.

_______ refers to the societal norms and expectations associated with the behavior of men and women and is a social construction in that definitions of appropriate behavior have changed across time and place.

Haiti stands alone as a nation which emerged out of a successful slave rebellion.

This perspective on racial/ethnic inequality emphasizes that white workers fuel antagonisms between racial groups in the labor force which ultimately benefit them as white workers.

Cultural beliefs of superiority and inferiority along racial lines emerged almost one hundred years into the slave trade, roughly between 1667 and 1682, as a way to justify the exploitation of Africans; Africans were not enslaved because they were viewed as inferior to whites.

Provide a detailed example of resistance to racial/ethnic inequality from African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican American groups.

Describe the specific types of exploitation Native American women experienced as a result of European colonialism.

Use two of the sociological perspectives theories introduced in this chapter to explain the emergence of racial/ethnic inequality in the United States.

Which of the following are necessary conditions for racial and ethnic inequality to emerge in society?

Africans were not oppressed, exploited, and enslaved because they were black. The emergence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade actually helped create "race," the idea of dividing humanity into hierarchical categories based upon physical appearances.

Between the 1500s and the mid-1800s, Native Americans experienced a ________, or the deliberate and systematic attempt to eradicate a group of people, at the hands of whites through the introduction of disease, war, forced relocation, and cultural denigration.

In order to understand race, racism, and race relations today, social scientists argue that it is important to take history into account in order to understand why these patterns of racial inequality first arose and the ways they influence race relations today.

James C. Scott argues that subordinate group resistance takes the form of a _________, which are the actions and interactions that occur outside the gaze of members of the dominant group and challenge the subordinate status of minority groups.

Describe the resistance to oppression and discrimination among African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans.