Exam 1: Natives and Newcomers

Americanization has only had undesirable aspects for all in the United States.

The U.S.Census has always asked for identification of two or more races.

Which of the following researchers discussed the issue of subsocieties and subcultures in assimilation?

Ethnogenesis is argued to involve ________ negotiation among various racial and ethnic groups and the dominant group.

Of all the assimilation researchers mentioned in this text,the authors chose to focus most on the works of:

People tend to assume that groups based on physical and social inheritance are natural and of special importance.

Which researcher studied the Irish in his contribution to the theory of assimilation?

Compare and contrast Handlin's and Gordon's approaches to assimilation.Why is Gordon's more useful?

The boundaries between and within racial and ethnic groups are:

Americanization is in effect the opposite of assimilation.

Your race,sex,ethnicity,family status,and age are all ________ characteristics.

"It is absolutely essential that we study the ________ ________ that have created the dominant-subordinate group relations of interest to us."

American Indians assimilated in three generations.

If you had to present an argument that race is a social,political,historical,and traditionalconstruct rather than a biological construct,then which key points could you include in a list of ten supporting claims for your argument?

Ethnic identities combined with networks with co-ethnics of the same social class form a subsociety called:

Generally speaking,which generation of immigrants may move more completely into the mainstream of American society?

Most scholars claim that Blacks and Whites strictly avoided sexual relations throughout U.S. history.

In the 1980 Census,98 percent of those who described their ancestry as American had three generations in the United States.

Kennedy found that assimilation occurred within the various religious groups she studied.

Explain the role of economics in the assimilation process for new immigrants,focusing on labor demands at the time of entry into the United States.