Question 1

According to Ferber, Caucasian Jews today are a ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  small group in the United States 
B)  strong group in the United States 
C)  privileged group in the United States 
D)  fiction, because "Caucasians" are one race and "Jews" are another

Question 2

Omi and Winant define race as a concept that signifies and symbolizes_____by referring to_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  social conflicts and interests; different types of human bodies 
B)  underlying genetic differences; skin colors 
C)  cultural identities; immutable physical traits 
D)  superiority and inferiority; geographic locations of origin

Question 3

McIntosh acknowledges that running through a matrix of White privilege were a pattern of_____that were passed on to her as a White person.

Accepted Answer

A)  assumptions 
B)  attitudes 
C)  behaviors 
D)  actions

Question 4

Contemporary White nationalist groups recruit members and spread racist ideology through_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  hate-based internet websites 
B)  social media 
C)  video games 
D)  all of the above

Question 5

Gans argues that the lay public uses a perception of select physical variations to define_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  biology 
B)  social construction 
C)  individual races 
D)  strangers

Question 6

The court case of Susie Phipps, who sued the Louisiana Bureau of Vital Records in 1982 to change her racial classification, illustrates that_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  skin color determines race 
B)  race is a fixed reality that cannot be altered by legal designations 
C)  the social meanings of race are constantly being transformed by political struggle 
D)  race is less important now than it was in the past

Question 7

The only population whose social features are not automatically perceived differently with upward mobility is_____.

Accepted Answer

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

Question 8

Can you identify the positive and negative aspects of your privilege?

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Question 9

Ferber points out the identity of white supremacists, and the white racial purity they espouse requires the maintenance of_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  secure boundaries 
B)  open boundaries 
C)  closed boundaries 
D)  protected

Question 10

In Sexual Behavior of the Human Male , Kinsey found that_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  homosexual experience is virtually absent within males 
B)  homosexual experience is rare among young and middle-aged males 
C)  homosexual experience is more common than was previously thought 
D)  homosexuality is rare among elderly men

Question 11

According to Gregory Mantsios in "Media Magic: Making Class Invisible," the media creates a universal middle class. This results in_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  the middle class fearing and blaming anyone who is less affluent 
B)  more power to address poverty in America 
C)  more unity in the fight against the waste of the wealthy 
D)  the increasing size of the middle class

Question 12

As noted in "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?," White Americans have options regarding their ethnic identities, including_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  the choice of which of their European ancestries to claim and whether to claim any specific ancestry 
B)  what holidays they will observe 
C)  what religion they will practice 
D)  genetic testing

Question 13

Even though they were most often portrayed as low prestige service industry workers, about ________of South Asians who entered the United States between 1966 and 1977 had background in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.

Accepted Answer

A)  35% 
B)  58% 
C)  73% 
D)  83%

Question 14

As evidence supporting his triracial hypothesis, Bonilla-Silva points toward_____________.

Accepted Answer

A)  gaps in socioeconomic status between the three racial groups 
B)  differences in occupational status between the three racial groups 
C)  measures of racial attitudes and social contact 
D)  all of the above

Question 15

Over the last century, wealth inequality in the United States has followed a_____.

Accepted Answer

A)  L-shaped pattern, falling dramatically in the 1960s and remaining low since then 
B)  S-shaped pattern, rising and falling in repeating cycles every ten to fifteen years 
C)  U-shaped pattern, peaking in 1929, falling between 1929 and 1978, and continuously increasing since 1978 
D)  mountain-shaped pattern, rising steadily between 1920 and 1960, peaking in the early 1960s, and falling continuously since 1970

Question 16

Explain the racialization process that Indians and South Asians experience in the United States.

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Question 17

The movement of middle- or upper-middle-class people into formerly poor or working-class neighborhoods, resulting in increasing housing values is known as ______ .

Accepted Answer

A)  beautification 
B)  generalization 
C)  assimilation 
D)  gentrification

Question 18

According to Mary Waters in "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?," White ethnics fail to recognize ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  the difference between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced and imposed racial identity 
B)  the similarity between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced and imposed racial identity 
C)  that some ethnicities are more important than others 
D)  that all ethnicities are merely symbolic in today's worlds

Question 19

What are some of the key points to Kinsey's research? Does he believe that the heterosexual/homosexual division is "natural?" Why or why not?

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Question 20

On what basis does the author argue that industrial capitalism emerged in the United States as a racialized institution?

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Exam 2: Systems of Power and Inequality