Exam 1: Race in the Twenty-First Century

More than half of the 80,000 hate crimes the FBI documented between 1995 and 2004 were motivated by racial hatred.

Which of the following is an example of biological determinism demonstrated during the twentieth century?

Your level of wealth is primarily dictated by the wealth of your parents.

Blacks are naturally superior athletes.

Which of the following developments would give most Americans a good reason to be optimistic regarding race?

What term do we use to refer to a "symbolic category, based on phenotype or ancestry and constructed according to specific social and historical contexts, that is misrecognized as a natural category?

The claims regarding race-based high athletic ability with low cognitive skills is considered a:

Which of the following offenses are reported as part of hate-crime incidents tallied by the FBI?

Define both ethnicity and nationality. Discuss in what ways these two concepts can connect within our day to day lives and sense of identity.

Which of the following characteristics were used to describe Jewish basketball players during the early part of the twentieth century?

Dozens of doctors have lost patients for falsely assuming a dying patient is more likely to find a donor among those of the same race.

Biological determinism is an example of good science.

Which of the following groups of Americans were the poorest in the nation with poverty rates of 25%?

Today's racism is always obvious.