What perspective on race and ethnicity tends to emphasize group tensions between the privileged and the exploited (those who control the power and those who want it)?
Conflict Perspective
The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups, which results from the normal operations of a society is known as
Normative Theory
Any arbitrary police initiated action based on race, ethnicity, or natural origin rather than a person's behavior is known as
Racial Profiling
Which term refers to the physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social functions?
Segregation
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans contains an implicit critique of Blacks, Hispanics, and others for failing to succeed as well as the model minority has. This could be viewed as yet another instance of
Blaming the Victim
The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, is called
Panethincity
The Hate Crime Statistics Act
�1990
�Dept. of Justice gathers data on hate crimes
�It gives the federal government jurisdiction over prosecuting hate crimes in states where the current law is inadequate or when local authorities are unwilling or do not have the resources to do so them
Fear or hatred of strangers is
Xenophobia
What theoretical perspective tends to emphasize how the multiple parts of society are structured to maintain its stability?
Functionalist
Exaggerated generalizations about the characteristics of members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group are known as
Stereotypes
The structured ranking of entire groups that perpetuates unequal rewards and power in a society is the definition for
Stratification
Immigration to the of skilled workers, professionals, and technicians who are desperately needed in their home country is known
Brain Drain
Ethnophaulism
Ethnic or racial slurs, including derisive nicknames
Secessionist minorities are groups that
Groups that reject assimilation and promote coexistence and pluralism
According to its theorists, the culture of poverty involves
No future planning, No enduring commitment to marriage, and No work ethic
The use of race-neutral principles to defend the racially unequal status quo is called
Color-Blind Racism
What states that interracial interaction between people with equal status in cooperative circumstances will cause them to become less prejudiced and to abandon previously held stereotypes?
The Contact Hypothesis
Civil religion describes
The religious dimension in American life that merges the state with sacred beliefs
What defines a racial group?
Set apart because of obvious and physical differences
Affirmative action policies are aimed against practices such as
Union Nepotism
Glass walls describes
A barrier to moving laterally in a business to positions that are more likely to lead to upward mobility
Remittances are monies
The monies that immigrants return to their countries of origin
This theory of prejudice explores the view that prejudice is influenced by societal norms and situations that encourage or discourage the tolerance of minorities.
Normative Theory
The most visible expression of pluralism
Language use
Self-fulfilling prophecy
The tendency to respond to and act on the basis of stereotypes a predisposition that can lead one to validate false definitions
Which Asian American group has the highest levels of educational achievement?
Asian Indians
What's the problem with the term Native American?
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Slaves in the United States
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Which term is used to refer to a minority group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant group have over theirs?
Subordinate Group
The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups based on test scores is called
Tracking
The term glass ceiling refers to
The barrier that blocks the promotion of a qualified worker because of gender or minority membership
The concept of race is
A social construct
Criminal offenses against persons due to their race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation are called
Hate Crime
By far, the largest single denomination in the United States is
Roman Catholicism, Largest Protestant? Southern Baptist
A fixed standard based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist is called
Absolute Poverty
Reluctant liberals are those who
The unprejudiced discriminator
Asking people their willingness to work with or participate in activities with people of different ethnic backgrounds measures their level of
Social Dissonance
Which approach explains how racism can stigmatize a group as inferior so that the exclusion of that group can be justified?
Exploitation Theory
The largest segment of the Hispanic population in the United States is composed of
Citizens of Mexican birth and their descendants
The tendency to assume that one's culture and way of life are superior to all others is known as
Ethnocentrism
The term La Raza is used to connote pride in
a pluralistic Spanish, Indian, and Mexican heritage
The Termination Act of 1953
�Most controversial governmental policy toward reservation Native Americans in the 20th century
�Policy proposed, at that time, was an attempt to give Native Americans greater autonomy and at the same time reduce federal expenditures
�Services tribes rece
The term yellow peril captured which of the following characterizations of Asian people?
�Heathen
�Morally Inferior
�Drug Addicted
�Savage
�Lustful
The program of deporting immigrants back to their native lands in the 1930's was known as
Repatriation
People's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable living experiences are known as?
Life Chances
When a group experiences prejudice and discrimination, yet seems to have succeeded economically, socially, and educationally without resorting to political or violent confrontations with Whites, they are said to be a
Model Minority
Who comprise the largest Asian American group?
Chinese Americans
Define Scapegoating
A person or group blamed irrationally for another person's or group's problems or difficulties
Total discrimination refers to current discrimination operating in the current labor market and
Past discrimination created by poor schools and menial jobs