Ethnic Studies Questions

Asian Americans are generally concentrated in the: Canadian border states. midwestern states. western states. southeastern states.

_____ is the unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership in a social group, usually motivated by prejudice. ____ is behavior: (racial steering and racial profiling.)

_____ is the belief that the variation of skin color within a racial or ethnic group can determine superiority or inferiority within the group.

______ occurs when members of a racial, ethnic, or religious group are assumed to have a single set of favorable or unfavorable characteristics. ____ is prejudging and it is thoughts and beliefs. (Colorism, stereotyping, scapegoating.)

_____ occurs when someone else is blamed for one's own misfortune.

____is judging others based on apreconceived generalization about groups or categories of people.

Race is a social construct because it is a concept that has been created by society and is not based on biological reality but ___________

If race determinism is believed to be true, then the consequences of your _____ are real. ( inequality, privilege)

What ethic group was the only group who did not come to the US as immigrants?

More than 1/3 of African Americans earn 48,000 or more each year

Prejudice and discrimination can reinforce one another

In most cases, race and ethnicity refer to the same thing

Discrimination is an unfair belief about an entire category of people

Being Greek, Italian, or Vietnamese involves a distinct ethnicity

Segregation refers to the physical and social separation of categories of people

Prejudice and discrimination can be either positive or negative

Today more people are willing to define themselves as multiracial

White ethnics are non wasps of European ancestors

Native Americans integrated to the US about the time Christopher Columbus came to the Americas

The US Supreme Court outlawed slavery in the Dread Scott case in 1857