Ethnic Cultures Final

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?

...

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