Deck 6: Geographies of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, and Gender.

Question 1

While many ethnic neighborhoods result from the desire to live near other members of an ethnic group, ghettos are more likely involuntary settlements.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The townships that developed in South Africa under apartheid:

A) have become mixed race residential areas.
B) continue to face poverty and are largely slums.
C) have been closed and converted to farm land.
D) are the home to most Afrikaners.
E) still have legally segregated schools and parks.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A Native American reservation in the United States or Canada might be termed an:

A) ethnic island.
B) ethnic neighborhood.
C) ethnoburb.
D) ghetto.
E) symbolic ethnicity.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The goal of apartheid was to create separate but equal areas for each racial group in South Africa.

Question 5

Racism is an ideology that believes genetic differences among people produce a hierarchy of people.

Question 6

Assimilation describes the way immigrant groups develop unique roles in modern societies that may require retaining aspects of their culture.

Question 7

When scholars argue that race is a social construction, not a biological fact, they believe:

A) race is concept that is created and given meaning by a society.
B) race is something that is easily categorized.
C) physical traits in people can easily fit into formal regions.
D) there is a natural order of beings in the world.
E) intolerance is based on experienced differences.

Question 8

In the modern world:

A) slavery has been eliminated.
B) while not technically slavery, bonded and forced labor remain.
C) human trafficking has been eliminated through international law.
D) most forced labor happens in Europe and North America.
E) laws against child labor assure all children have an opportunity to attend school.

Question 9

People who do not fit the heterosexual norm often have difficulty in public spaces because:

A) people are either male or female in their identity and biology.
B) public spaces are open to everyone, but heterosexual norms may dominate.
C) the gender gap is widening.
D) more women are active in the labor force in the United States.
E) gender roles have changed in many countries.

Question 10

Your home neighborhood would be considered an ethnoscape if:

A) at least 75 percent of the residents were members of one ethnic group.
B) the neighborhood is described as an ethnic island by the U.S. Census.
C) the landscape of the neighborhood expresses the identity of a particular ethnic group.
D) assimilation has taken place in the area.
E) the neighborhood was built before Civil Rights laws were in effect.

Question 11

Ethnic cleansing is the effort of a government to force the removal of an ethnic group from an area.

Question 12

Ethnicity is both subjective and flexible.

Question 13

An ethnic group is likely made up a people who share:

A) at least two languages.
B) a common religion.
C) a similar economic status.
D) a history of migrating at the same time.
E) ties to a group of countries.

Question 14

Institutional discrimination and segregation are generally based on racism.

Question 15

Which of the following types of census geography includes the smallest area?

A) city.
B) county.
C) state.
D) census tract.
E) block group.

Question 16

One issue with the ethnicity data in the U.S. census is that residents self-select census categories to describe their ethnicity.

Question 17

The gradual loss of the cultural traits, beliefs, and practices that distinguish immigrant ethnic groups and their members is:

A) assimilation.
B) pluralism.
C) heterolocalism
D) blockbusting.
E) cultural relativism.

Question 18

Countries that have a value close to 1 on the gender gap index have a wide gender gap while countries with values close to 0 have a narrow gender gap.

Question 19

The concept of heterolocalism means that:

A) members of an ethnic group live in the same community.
B) a single ethnic group defines certain neighborhoods within a community .
C) members of an ethnic group do not leave their community .
D) members of an ethnic group maintain a shared identity even though they are residentially dispersed.
E) all ethnicities have the same characteristics despite the city they live in.

Question 20

Ethnic islands are found in cities while ethnoburbs are found in rural areas.