Exam 13: The Future of Race Glossary References Index

This term specifically refers to legal statutes delineating serious crimes motivated by prejudice against ethnicity, race, skin color, national origin, etc.

Explain the claim that the U.S. is a post-racial or colorblind society. What political development spurred this idea? Explain why this claim is inaccurate.

This act abolished the National Origins Quota system and replaced it with a system that showed preference for an immigrant's skills and their relationship to U.S. citizens.

An example of a group that is currently being racialized in American society is:

Explain the argument that race is a social construction. Describe the two sociological predictions on the future of race: becoming white in the twenty-first century and the triracial stratification system.

Describe the current trends toward an increase in racial minorities as well as in increasingly aged society. What predictions do social scientists have for this intersection of groups in regards to politics?

Various voter suppression techniques have been implemented in various states as a way to create barriers to voting among poor people, who are disproportionately racial/ethnic minorities, and college students.

The U.S. is not facing dramatically higher immigration rates than we have in the past, but immigration is perceived as increasing.

This term refers to a group of people that tend to vote in ways that support or oppose particular policies, or when a group votes in a particular way as a reflection of a particular aspect of their identity.

Which historical government policy was designed to protect the racial purity of American society by banning Chinese immigrants from entry:

To say race is a social construction is to say race:

Which of the following are examples of anti-immigrant rhetoric used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during his campaign?

Describe how race and white privilege operate in politics. Describe the role and influence of the Latino constituency in U.S. politics in recent decades. Describe Latino voting rates and reasons for these rates.

While the U.S. government has mostly avoided addressing the wrongs toward Japanese Americans for their internment during WWII, it has addressed the wrongs of slavery and near genocide of Native Americans.

Discuss the increase of an anti-immigration climate in U.S. society. What are some of the economic arguments against immigration? What are some of the economic arguments for immigration?

Describe U.S. immigration law historically, specifically the accomplishments of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the National Origins Quota System, and the Immigration Reform Act.

The racial stratification system in Latin America is based on this, which implies that racial groups are internally stratified along the lines of skin color.

Which of the following racial/ethnic minority groups has shifted from a solid Republican voting bloc to a strong democratic one over the last twenty years?

White nationalist and nativist sentiments are not just found in American culture; instead, these ideologies re global.

After Barak Obama won the 2008 presidential election a claim was made that we are in a post-racial society. This claim implies that: