Chapter 6: Inequalities of Race and Ethnicity
Key Terms


This section will test your knowledge of key terms relating to the inequalities of race and ethnicity.


1.  

In ________ societies, ethnic and racial ties are among the most basic relationships that hold people together.

communal
transitional
associational
industrial


2.  

Angela disliked Diane because Diane belonged to a different religious group. Angela was guilty of _________.

discrimination
prejudice
ethnic supression
ethnic identity


3.  

One who is not prejudice, but engages in discrimination is a/an _________.

all-weather liberal
timid bigot
fair-weather liberal
all-weather bigot


4.  

_________ are rigid and inaccurate beliefs that exist partially because they increase the status of the group using them.

institutional racisms
steroetypes
fair-weather liberals
prejudices


5.  

Redlining, or refusing to grant mortgage loans to African-Americans who live in low-income areas of a city, is an example of _________.

institutional racism
stereotyping
prejudice
ethnicide


6.  

The Normans and Saxons experienced _________ when they blended to become the British.

pluralism
ethnic revival
assimilation
symbolic identity


7.  

During WWII _________ on the West Coast were sent to incarceration centers even though most were American citizens by birth.

Cuban Americans
Japanese Americans
Korean Americans
Puerto Rican Americans


8.  

_________ implies that ethnic diversity is a desirable social goal and that group distinctiveness is voluntary.

assimilation
annihilation
expulsion
pluralism


9.  

Americans of Italian, Irish, French, and Polish origin are called _________.

WASPs
white ethnics
Americanized
pluralistic


10.  

_________ are among the oldest racial group in the U.S.

African Americans
Japanese Americans
Cuban Americans
Chinese Americans


11.  

_________ live mainly in the Northeast and are one of the poorest minority groups in the U.S.

Japanese Americans
Puerto Rican Americans
Cuban Americans
Chinese Americans


12.  

_________ immigrated to California during the gold rush of 1849 and later worked on the railroads.

Japanese Americans
Vietnamese Americans
Philipino Americans
Chinese Americans


13.  

The _________perspective argues that ethnic and racial inequality results from the endless competition among groups for power, wealth, and status.

functionalism
conflict
symbolic interaction
distributive systems


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