Exam 1: Race in the Twenty-First Century

Scientists who have found different distributions of genetic sequences across racial groups provide solid evidence for a genetic foundation of racial variation.

According to Stephen Jay Gould, with which of the following occurrences does biological determinism correlate?

When was the intelligence quotient test first developed by Alfred Binet to locate children with special needs?

To say that nothing has improved regarding race in America would be accurate.

Which of the following terms would be considered a homogenizing heading?

What is the difference in genetic variation comparing within traditionally defined racial groups and between them?

Which of the following sociologists spoke of the importance of history in understanding present-day society? He wrote, "[I]n each one of us, in differing degrees, is contained the person we were yesterday…[T]he present is necessarily insignificant when compared with the long period of the past because of which we have emerged in the form we have today."

Researchers have found that mass incarceration does little to lower crime rates.

As a species, humans have dramatically low levels of genetic variation.

After watching Wayne Gretzy, Matt Cullen, or Jagr Jaromir perform their magic on the ice rink, it is safe to conclude that all white people are good at hockey.

Compare and contrast institutional racism with interpersonal racism. What role does symbolic violence play within these types of racism?

Race exists on the genetic level.

Which great American novelist observed that "Color is not a human or personal reality; it is a political reality"?

How many times more likely are African Americans to be incarcerated than whites?

Half of whites surveyed believe the average African American and the average white person are equally well-off.

Race is a biological concept.

Choose three examples from your own life as examples of the unspoken "normalcy"of white culture that you confront on a daily basis.

Which social scientist correctly observed that we "do not perceive racial differences…[but] phenotypical differences of colour, hair form, underlying bone structure and so on"?

A race-based classification system, such as the one used by the U.S. Census Bureau, is referred to as a racial taxonomy.

Twenty-first century patterns of racial stigmatization, exclusion, and repression resemble those of the twentieth century.