Deck 5: Race and Ethnic Variations

Question 1

For thousands of African Americans, emancipation brought with it freedom to die of starvation and illness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

For the first time since the beginning of the twentieth century, black women are participating in the labor force at lower rates than are white women.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Today, more than half of all African Americans live in the Western United States.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Hispanic American population is the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States.

Question 5

The Mexican American population is larger than all other Hispanic American groups combined.

Question 6

In collectivistic societies, there is a low degree of shared responsibility for meeting individual and societal needs.

Question 7

According to the Moynihan Report, the family was the institution that constituted the 'one true source of strength and hope' in the black community.

Question 8

Southern African American immigrants to the north carried with them a 'dysfunctional' family culture, especially when compared to northern born blacks.

Question 9

African Americans form the largest racial minority in the U.S. today.

Question 10

An ethnic group is based on a common cultural origin.

Question 11

The large number of female headed single households in the African American community exists because Black women emasculate Black men and drive them away.

Question 12

Because of slavery, African Americans lost all traces of their former cultures.

Question 13

Evidence supports the contention that African American residents of high poverty neighborhoods are deprived of conventional role models and important social network resources.

Question 14

Following emancipation, the majority of African Americans remained on plantations as tenants of their former owners.

Question 15

It appears that black leaders emerge from families in which both a husband and a wife are present.

Question 16

In any given year over the past several decades, the unemployment rate for black females was about equal to that of white females, but for black males was four times as high as that for white males.

Question 17

Largely as a result of 'great society' and anti-poverty programs, the dollar gap between blacks and whites in the United States has ceased to exist.

Question 18

Residential segregation results in part from white flight and discriminatory lending practices.

Question 19

Biological differences between persons and groups constitute racial categories and groups.

Question 20

Miscegenation refers to marriage and interbreeding between members of different races.

Question 21

The superintegration hypothesis holds that with increasing levels of acculturation into dominant cultural values and lifestyles and high levels of economic stress and poverty, the idealized notion of the Hispanic American extended family no longer applies.

Question 22

The number of people in the U.S. identifying as Native American has increased dramatically since 1960.

Question 23

A braceros is another term for an illegal Mexican American alien.

Question 24

The belief that each member of the society has an obligation to the whole of society and places the common good over their own individual needs is called:

A) collectivism/communalism
B) familism
C) patriarchy
D) individualism

Question 25

Studies suggest that husband dominance is not only prevalent among Mexican American men, but is increasing in importance in the family.

Question 26

In general, Hispanic Americans have more children than other groups.

Question 27

Racial groups are best classified according to

A) biological and inherited physical traits.
B) percentage of black ancestry.
C) socially defined groups distinguished by inherited physical characteristics.
D) cultural and ethnic differences.

Question 28

Of Hispanic American families, Cubans have the lowest poverty rates.

Question 29

In 1871, President Grant passed an education fund designed to assist American Indians in maintaining their native languages, preserve their religious ceremonies, and strengthen their family ties.

Question 30

It appears that second generation children of immigrants who do not share a common language with their parents experience greater parent-adolescent conflict than do those who share a common language.

Question 31

Asian Americans are better educated than the U.S. population as a whole.

Question 32

More Hispanic Americans live in single-parent female-headed households than African Americans.

Question 33

Compadres are uncles and aunts of a newborn who agree to care for and raise the child should something happen to the parents.

Question 34

More than half of Native Americans live on reservations or tribally designated lands.

Question 35

As of 2007, about two-thirds of Native American family households were composed of married-couple families, a figure below that of Hispanic, Asian, and white Americans.

Question 36

About two-thirds (64 percent) of all U.S. Latinos are native born.

Question 37

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have the highest rates of married couple households of any group in the U.S.

Question 38

Compared to most racial, ethnic, or minority groups, the role of the Native American grandparent in the lives of their grandchildren is one of restraint and distance.

Question 39

Pacific Islanders can be considered to be an ethnic group.

Question 40

Asian Americans are a very homogenous group.

Question 41

A higher sex ratio for black women was found to be associated with

A) a higher marriage prevalence.
B) a higher percentage of marital births.
C) neither A nor B.
D) both A and B.

Question 42

Among Mexican American families, the traditional role of the 'good woman' who married, and stayed home to care for her husband and children was called:

A) machismo
B) marianism
C) feminism
D) casalingua

Question 43

A typical feature of Mexican American families is to put the needs of the family above personal or individual needs. This is termed

A) family compadrism.
B) family collectivism.
C) familism.
D) braceroism.

Question 44

As of 2007, the median income was highest for __________ families and lowest for __________ families.

A) Asian / black and Hispanic
B) black / white and Asian
C) Hispanic / white and black
D) white / black and Hispanic

Question 45

The text suggests that one of the most significant changes in the African American family in the last forty years is the

A) increase in family income.
B) increase in education among family members.
C) increase in occupational prestige among males.
D) proliferate growth of female-headed households.

Question 46

Compadres and comadres, to Mexican American families, are most closely linked to

A) braceros.
B) godparents.
C) uncles and aunts.
D) any family member related by marriage rather than birth.

Question 47

For many years, the unemployment rate for both black males and females, when compared to the nation as a whole, was about

A) the same or just slightly higher.
B) double.
C) three times.
D) four times.

Question 48

As of 2007, the percentage of blacks below the poverty level was about

A) 12 percent.
B) 25 percent.
C) 32 percent.
D) 42 percent.

Question 49

Some sociologists argue that the single most important variable to understanding African American families today is not race, but

A) place of residence.
B) social class.
C) religion.
D) family structure.

Question 50

The transition from slavery to emancipation revealed that

A) many male/female ties were severed.
B) the transition was easiest for artisans, preachers, or house servants.
C) most African Americans remained on plantations.
D) all of the first three are true.

Question 51

Two factors were said to account for the high rates of Puerto Rican family poverty. These two factors are

A) language problems and lack of employment.
B) employment patterns and female-headed households.
C) single parenthood and inadequate welfare benefits.
D) large family size and employment patterns.

Question 52

Fewer marriages and more out-of-wedlock births among African Americans seem to be related to

A) a shortage of black men.
B) a higher socioeconomic status of black men.
C) a lower educational status of black women.
D) all of the above three.

Question 53

The poverty rate among Hispanic American groups is highest for __________ and lowest for __________.

A) Puerto Ricans / Cubans.
B) Mexicans / Central-South Americans.
C) Central-South Americans / Puerto Ricans.
D) Cubans / Mexicans.

Question 54

According to the text, middle-class two-parent African American families are those

A) in which the father plays a less dominant role.
B) in which husbands tend to be less satisfied with life in their families.
C) in which wives maintain dominance over family members.
D) from which African American leaders are most likely to emerge.

Question 55

The classic Moynihan Report contended that among blacks,

A) the deterioration of the family was at the heart of problems in the community.
B) the family was the one source of strength in a troubled community.
C) problems in families would improve if the church and volunteer agencies would provide more needed services.
D) gangs, drugs, and sex were the major issues in the ʺtangle of pathologyʺ that existed in communities.

Question 56

The percentage of African Americans living in metropolitan areas in 2003 in the United States was about

A) 43.2 percent.
B) 58.7 percent.
C) 73.1 percent.
D) 87.5 percent.

Question 57

The characteristic that appears to be most relevant in the transition of families from Africa to America is

A) color.
B) religion.
C) social class.
D) family size

Question 58

When compared with northern-born blacks, southern immigrants had

A) fewer children living with two parents.
B) less traditional family patterns.
C) less unemployment, poverty, and welfare dependency.
D) both A and B above.

Question 59

Over the past two decades, the percentage of African Americans who completed high school and college has

A) increased considerably for both males and females.
B) increased for females, but decreased for males.
C) decreased considerable for both males and females.
D) shown only slight, if any, change for both sexes.

Question 60

The largest percentage of Hispanic Americans classify themselves as:

A) Puerto Rican
B) Cuban
C) Mexican
D) South American

Question 61

Interracial marriage and interbreeding between members of different races, especially blacks and whites in the United States, is known as __________.

Question 62

With few exceptions, most Africans came to America under conditions of __________, a factor that made their mobility different from almost any other immigrant group.

Question 63

The Native American population is increasing at a rate of _____ the national average.

A) )50
B) 1.25
C) 2
D) 4

Question 64

Which ethnic group is better educated than the population as a whole?

A) Native Americans
B) Asian Americans
C) Hispanic Americans
D) African Americans

Question 65

The entry of an ethnic group's members into close, or primary, relationships with members of the dominant group is called ______________________.

Question 66

Rates of intermarriage for Native Americans tend to be:

A) very low.
B) about the same as other ethnic groups.
C) very high in all geographic areas.
D) very high in some geographic areas.

Question 67

The _________ hypothesis says that Hispanic American families (and especially Mexican American families) place strong cultural values on familism and patriarchy and display high levels of involvement in the Catholic religion, resulting in high levels of interdependency among extended families.

A) disintegration
B) familism
C) superintegration
D) ethnic family

Question 68

Native Americans have high rates of:

A) school dropouts
B) suicide
C) poverty
D) all of the above

Question 69

In the late 1800s, President Grant appropriated funds to churches to assist in American Indian education by

A) providing reading and writing training in their native language.
B) integrating Indian dances and traditions with Christian teachings.
C) sending children to off-reservation boarding schools.
D) both A and B above.

Question 70

According to the authors of your text, _____________ refers to a strong obligation to place family obligations over individual and community needs.

Question 71

In 2001, African Americans were surpassed by __________ as the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the United States.

Question 72

Large numbers of _________ Americans were interred in relocation camps during WWII.

A) Japanese
B) Chinese
C) Filipino
D) Korean

Question 73

The term used to refer to how decisions an individual makes in his/her life will affect the tribe over following generations is known as:

A) familism
B) seven generations
C) collectivism
D) historical echoes

Question 74

The largest Asian American group is

A) Filipino.
B) Chinese.
C) Japanese.
D) Asian Indian.

Question 75

Asian Americans tend to have low _______ rates and high rates of _________.

A) divorce/family disintegration
B) family disintegration/teen pregnancy
C) divorce/family integration
D) marriage/divorce

Question 76

Some sociologists argue that the single most important factor in understanding the African American family today is not race, but __________.

Question 77

Non-marital cohabitation rates are highest among

A) Mexican Americans.
B) Cuban Americans.
C) Central-South Americans.
D) Puerto Rican Americans.

Question 78

Most Asian Americans live in ___________ areas.

A) rural
B) suburban
C) exurban
D) metropolitan

Question 79

Negative impressions and bias towards members of a minority group is known as _________.

Question 80

The largest American Indian population, tribe or nation, is the

A) Cherokee.
B) Navaho.
C) Sioux.
D) Hopi.