Deck 11: Race and Ethnicity

Question 1

Who is the father of taxonomy?

A) Carl Linnaeus
B) Johann Blumenbach
C) Charles Darwin
D) Rogelio Saenz
E) Edward Bloom

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What percentage of all new marriages in the U.S. in 2008 were between spouses of a different race or ethnicity?

A) About 14%
B) About 25%
C) About 7%
D) About 33%
E) About 2%

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Define the following: pluralism; assimilation; and the melting pot theory. How are each of these concepts and theories similar and different?

Answer 3

Not Answer

Question 4

Which racial or ethnic group had the largest absolute numerical increase in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010?

A) Non-Hispanic Asians
B) Non-Hispanic Blacks
C) Hispanics
D) Non-Hispanic Whites
E) Non-Hispanic Native Americans

Question 5

What is the "Rogelio Rule"? How does it work? Why is this rule useful for the demographic study of race and ethnicity?

Question 6

Which of the following is not one of the four racial groups identified and measured by the U.S. Federal Government in the U.S. census?

A) Non-Hispanic White
B) Non-Hispanic Black
C) Non-Hispanic Asian
D) Non-Hispanic Native American
E) Non-Hispanic Middle Easterner

Question 7

What is the difference between race and ethnicity?

A) Race is associated with physical characteristics, and ethnicity is associated with behavioral or cultural attributes.
B) Ethnicity is associated with physical characteristics, and race is associated with behavioral or cultural attributes.
C) Race is biologically based, while ethnicity is both biologically and socially based.
D) Ethnicity is biologically based, while race is both biologically and socially based.
E) There is no difference between race and ethnicity; they refer to the same characteristic.

Question 8

What is a majority-minority population? Which states of the U.S. are now characterized as majority-minority states? When is the United States projected to become a majority-minority country? What are some of the social, economic, and political consequences of a state or country turning into a majority-minority population?

Question 9

Which of the following has been a major racial trend in the U.S. population for the past couple of decades?

A) More immigrants having babies than native born people having babies.
B) A declining Hispanic population.
C) An increasing NH-white population
D) A declining Asian population
E) A declining non-Hispanic white population.

Question 10

When over 50% of a population is comprised of peoples who belong to the minority race/ethnic groups, the population may be referred to as a

A) minority-majority population
B) revolving door boarder population
C) minority population
D) majority-minority population
E) immigration reform population

Question 11

Which of the states below became a majority-minority state in around 2004?

A) Arizona
B) Texas
C) Colorado
D) Florida
E) New York

Question 12

A question about race has been included on every U.S. census since the first census was conducted in _________

A) 1790
B) 1890
C) 1900
D) 1950
E) 1970

Question 13

Which of the following statement is true?

A) Hispanics have higher birth rates and lower death rates than non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Native Americans.
B) Non-Hispanic Whites have higher birth rates than Hispanics, blacks, and Native Americans.
C) Hispanics have higher death rates than non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Native Americans.
D) Blacks have higher international migration rates than any other racial and ethnic group.
E) Asians have higher birth rates than Blacks.

Question 14

The racial categories set out between 250 and 300 years ago by ______ & ______ are pretty much the same categories still used today in U.S. censuses.

A) Saenz … Linnaeus
B) Linnaeus … Malthus
C) Linnaeus … Blumenbach
D) Blumenbach … Prewitt
E) Prewitt … Saenz

Question 15

Why do demographers study race and ethnicity? Why does this topic have special significance for demography?