Deck 5: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

What are the similarities and differences between the concepts of race and ethnicity, and how is this important to counseling diverse clients?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

According to the text, throughout the history of this country, race was a fundamental organizing principle of human affairs in which the races were biologically separate, and the boundaries that separated them were framed by _______ rather than by _______

A) skin pigmentation; morphology
B) Descent; phenotype
C) Culture; ethnicity
D) None of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Briefly discuss one example of resilience shown by each of the following ethnic groups presented in the text who continue to survive the impact of racism in the U.S.: Asian Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Latino/a Americans, and Native Americans.

Answer 3

not answered

Question 4

What are the similarities and differences between the concepts of race and culture, and how is this important to counseling diverse clients?

Question 5

Briefly discuss at least three examples of the impact of racism and ways for dealing effectively with these in counseling.

Question 6

Although early definitions of White applied only to those of British Protestant descent, by the early twentieth century, it was being applied to anyone of European descent; however, gaining acceptance under the definition of White during this time period remained a struggle for which of the following groups of people to primarily due to different religious beliefs

A) southern Europeans
B) eastern Europeans
C) the Irish
D) all of the above

Question 7

Which of the following originated as a biological construct grouping populations by their differences on biological measures

A) culture
B) ethnicity
C) race
D) micro-aggression

Question 8

According to the data derived from the Human Genome Project, any two humans on this planet are more than _____ identical at the molecular level

A) 0.099%
B) 0.999%
C) 9.999%
D) 99.99%

Question 9

Laws stemming from which of the following landmark court decisions upheld the separate yet equal doctrine continued to be used to segregate Whites from African Americans and other minorities in the early twentieth century

A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Gideon v. Wainwright
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) None of the above

Question 10

Claims that race mixing, known as _____, would produce people of inferior mental and physical abilities that posed a major threat to the well-being of society comprised a central theme in psychology's history

A) Hybridity
B) Prejudice
C) Culture
D) Ethnicity

Question 11

According to the text, until the early twentieth century, across nine southern states, a person with 15 White ancestors and a single African American ancestor four generations back was reckoned a "Negro" in the eyes of the law; this was referred to as the

A) Micro-aggressions
B) One drop rule
C) Jim Crow south
D) 1/15^th

Question 12

Briefly discuss the six types of race-related stress outlined in the text and ways for dealing effectively with these in counseling.

Question 13

A group of individuals who share a unique social and cultural heritage

A) culture
B) ethnicity
C) race
D) prejudice
E)g., language, custom, religion) passed on between generations is referred to as p. 129):

Question 14

According to the text, the typological view of races developed by Europeans arranged the peoples of the world hierarchically, largely based on ______ abilities and ______ qualities, with Caucasians at the top, Asians next, then Native Americans, and Africans at the bottom

A) Physical; moral
B) Mental; physical
C) Physical; mental
D) None of the above

Question 15

Throughout the early history of this country, using the biological construct of race, diverse categories of peoples were classified into races based on _______ and _______

A) skin pigmentation; morphology
B) Culture; ethnicity
C) Micro-aggressions; macro-aggressions
D) None of the above