Deck 3: Racial Ideologies From the 1920s to the Present

Question 1

Which statement can be attributed to the forty-fifth president?

A) "Laziness is a trait in Blacks."
B) Immigrants from Haiti "all have AIDS."
C) Nigerian immigrants should, "go back to their huts."
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Racism encompasses

A) racial hatred and racial segregation.
B) racial prejudice and racial discrimination.
C) racial discrimination and racial superiority.
D) racial prejudice and racial mistreatment.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Color-blind racism is a racial ideology that explains contemporary racial inequality as the outcome of _______dynamics.

A) nonracial
B) societal
C) historic
D) hyper-racial

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT true about the Trayvon Martin case?

A) His father lived in a gated community.
B) He was 17 years old.
C) He was carrying a gun.
D) He had just bought iced tea and a bag of Skittles.

Question 5

What type of ideology would scholars of race describe as today's most pervasive racial ideology?

A) biological
B) color-blind
C) cultural
D) universalist

Question 6

Which Supreme Court decision found that facilities could be segregated by race as long as they were "separate but equal?"

A) Dred Scott v. Sanford
B) Brown v. Board of Education
C) Milliken v. Bradley
D) Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 7

What was the name of the public park in Los Angeles that federal agents raided in 1931 to make 400 Mexicans produce documentation of legal entry and residency?

A) La Placita
B) La Plaza
C) La Playa
D) La Plancha

Question 8

What prompted agribusiness owners in the late 1880's and early 1900's to recruit Mexican laborers to come work on farms in the United States?

A) Puerto Rican laborers were not available.
B) A massive drought that required replanting on thousands of farms.
C) A shortage of workers created by Anti-Asian immigration legislation.
D) World War I created a shortage of labor.

Question 9

Why were White Californians threatened by Japanese Californians?

A) They were angry about the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
B) Japanese immigrants became landowners and competed with them.
C) Japanese Americans in California refused to volunteer for WWII.
D) Japanese immigrants were better businessmen.

Question 10

What did Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu do to avoid being sent to an internment camp with his parents?

A) Volunteered to fight in WWII to show his patriotism.
B) Became a lawyer to sue the government.
C) Changed the shape of his eyes with minor plastic surgery.
D) Moved back to Japan to live with family.

Question 11

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment, where doctors lied to their Black male patients about their diagnosis and treatment, began in 1932. It ended in

A) 1947, when penicillin became available.
B) 1954, when Jim Crow Laws ended.
C) 1965, when the Voting Rights Act passed.
D) 1972, when an employee leaked the story to the media.

Question 12

What case became one of the first legal and critical victories against de jure segregation?

A) Ward v. California
B) Mendez v. Westminster
C) Gong Lum v. Rice
D) Loving v. Virginia

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a legal victory of the civil rights movement?

A) The 1954 Civil Rights Act that banned segregated schools.
B) The 1964 Civil Rights Act that banned discrimination in employment practices and public accommodations.
C) The 1965 Voting Rights Act that restored voting rights to all citizens.
D) The Civil Rights Act of 1968 that outlawed housing discrimination.

Question 14

In 1960, Black college students sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter reserved for Whites. Even though they were denied service, they continued to sit at the counter in protest. How many students sat at the counter on Monday? How many students sat at the counter by Wednesday of the same week?

A) 5 on Monday, 23 on Wednesday
B) 4 on Monday, 66 on Wednesday
C) 3 on Monday, 71 on Wednesday
D) 2 on Monday, 18 on Wednesday

Question 15

The Freedom Riders consisted of White and Black volunteers from which organizations?

A) NAACP and the CORE
B) SNCC and SCLC
C) CORE and SNCC
D) NAACP and SNCC

Question 16

The ________________ had two goals: (1) to achieve legal equality and (2) to force the implementation of laws that were already on the books.

A) Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case
B) Voting Rights Act of 1965
C) Civil Rights Movement
D) student sit-ins

Question 17

What did a 2020 study involving a meta-analysis of 16 different experiment-based studies of U.S. housing discrimination and 19 ethnographic studies of mortgage lending discrimination find?

A) Persistent unemployment not racism made homebuying more difficult for African Americans.
B) Racial gaps in loan denial declined significantly since the 1970s.
C) Black homebuyers were discriminated against more than Asian American homebuyers.
D) Persistent racial discrimination in the housing and mortgage market.

Question 18

There are efforts to increase the participation of Black and Latinx students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Saying that Black and Latino families do not value education as much as Asian and White families is an example of:

A) Cultural racism.
B) Biological racism.
C) Naturalization.
D) Minimization of racism.

Question 19

In a two-year study of four urban schools in Colorado, researchers found that Black and Latino boys were regularly labeled as:

A) troublemakers.
B) hyper-policed.
C) disproportionately punished.
D) all of the above.

Question 20

When studying cultural racism in Peru, Dr. Tonya Golash-Boza found what?

A) There is no racism, but there is colorism.
B) Black and Indigenous people have a "low cultural level."
C) Marrying an Indigenous person means they value Peruvian culture.
D) Marrying a Black person means they do not value Peruvian culture.

Question 21

What is a racial ideology?

Question 22

Another way to describe color-blind racism is

Question 23

What are the major differences between Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till?

Question 24

What was the overall effect of Jim Crow laws?

Question 25

What are some modern-day examples of support for deportation of Mexicans?

Question 26

What is new racism?

Question 27

What is an example of cultural racism?

Question 28

What is an example of abstract liberalism frame of color-blind racism?

Question 29

Give two examples of rhetorical strategies of color-blind racism

Question 30

What were the ways that Donald Trump used race in his campaign?

Question 31

What does Patricia Hill Collins mean when she says that "ideologies that defend racism…become hegemonic?"

Question 32

What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?

Question 33

What happened to the Freedom Riders during their journey?

Question 34

Isn't the fact that the United States had a Black president, has a Latina serving on the Supreme Court, and that a woman of African American and Indian descent is the Vice President, prove that racism is a problem of the past?

Question 35

What is Color-Blind Universalism?