Race and the Social Construction of Difference MCQ
Race and the Social Construction of Difference MCQ
1. The systemic favoring, valuing, validating, and including of certain social identities over others is called
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Privilege
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2. One drop rule is The rule, based on a definition in the 1924 Racial Integrity Act, that a person was to be considered Black if he or she had any Black or Native American ancestry at all (i.e., “one drop” of Black blood)
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True
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3. The surrounding environment in which something (e.g., values, cells, humans) originates, develops, and grows is called
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Matrix
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4. Which of the following is true regarding the racial composition of the United States over the next 50 years?
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The United States will be a minority-majority nation.
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5. Which of the following is true about the concept of race?
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It is socially constructed.
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6. Ethnicity includes which of the following aspects?
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Religion
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7. An interdisciplinary subfield of scholarship examining Whiteness and White privilege that includes contributions by literary theorists, legal scholars, anthropologists, historians, psychologists, and sociologists is whiteness study
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True
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8. The movement of Whites from urban areas to suburbs in response to Black civil rights activism is ___ flight
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White
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9. Narratives that demonstrate how change and social justice comes about are transforming stories
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True
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10. The manifestation of core racist realities, values, and ideologies in all of the major institutions within society is systemic nature of racial oppression
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True
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11. The narratives of the dominant group, often embraced by those whose oppression these stories reinforce, are ____ stories.
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Stock
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12. Assumptions or generalizations applied to an entire group is ___
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Stereotypes
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13. ____ institutions are Patterned and structured sets of roles and behaviors centered on the performance of important social tasks within any given society
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Social
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14. The concept that the outcomes of the systematic distribution of rewards, privileges, and sanctions across populations through time is social construction of ____
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Race
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15. ___ stories are Narratives that directly challenge stock stories by speaking of defying domination and actively struggling for racial justice and social change
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Resistance
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16. A concept that encompasses the defining of categories of race in opposition to each other is rational aspects of race
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True
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17. The ideological justifications, processes, procedures, and institutions that define and structure society is called
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Racial frames
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18. Categorizations of people according to race that employ reputed differences in behaviors, skill sets, and inherent intelligence is called
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Racial categorization
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19. A social and cultural system by which people are categorized based on presumed biological differences is called
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Race
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20. ____ judgment of an individual or group, often based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, class, and other social identities
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Prejudice
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21. _____ Governments and other social structures that grant political power based on a hierarchy defined by skin tone, regardless of race or social status
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Pigmentocracies
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22. Physical traits such as skin color, hair texture, and facial features typically used to characterize people into racial groups is phenotypic traits
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True
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23. The placing of various regional groups into one large ethnic category is called
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Panethnicity
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24. The systematic devaluing, undermining, marginalizing, and disadvantaging of certain social identity groups in contrast to a privileged norm is called
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Oppression
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25. Jim crow Racism supported by the laws and practices that originated in the American South to enforce racial segregation
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True
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26. _____ Theories that argue that race and gender (as well as other salient social identities) are intertwined and inseparable, and no individual social identity can be fully comprehended on its own
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Intersectional
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27. ____ is Discriminatory practices and behaviors that are not formally sanctioned but rather are often assumed to be the natural, legitimate, and normal workings of society and its institutions
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Informal
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28. _____ is Discriminatory practices and behaviors that are sanctioned by official rules, codes, or laws of an organization, institution, or society
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Formal
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29. ____ is Identity that encompasses cultural aspects of an individual’s life, including religion, tradition, language, ancestry, nation, geography, history, belief, and practice
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Ethnicity
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30. ____ is differential allocation of goods, resources, and services, and the limitation of access to full participation in society, based on an individual’s membership in a particular social category
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Discrimination
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31. Narratives consisting of the data and voices that stock stories ignore; these stories often convey a very different understanding of identity and inequity
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Concealed stories
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32. An ideology with four components: abstract liberalism, which encompasses abstract concepts of equal opportunity, rationality, free choice, and individualism and is used to argue that discrimination is no longer a problem, and any individual who works hard can succeed is color blind racism
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True
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33. The view (or assertion) that one does not see race or ethnicity, only humans is called
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Color Blindness
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34. An individual’s point of origin, lineage, or descent is called
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Ancestry
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35. What is the difference between overt and covert racism?
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Overt racism occurs through the sanctioning of discriminatory practices and behaviors through official rules, codes, or laws, whereas covert racism is informal and is assumed to be part of the normal, natural workings of society and its institutions.
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36. White people can be the victims of prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination.
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True
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37. Racial frames are the ideological justifications, processes, procedures, and institutions that define and structure society.
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True
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38. Pan-ethnicity represents regional groups that are placed into a large category.
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True
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39. Which of the following is a phenotypical trait?
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Hair texture
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40. What is the best definition of oppression?
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The systematic devaluing, undermining, marginalizing, and disadvantaging of certin groups in contrast to a privileged norm.
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41. Which of the following is true of people labeled “Hispanic” by the U.S. Census Bureau?
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Many prefer to label themselves Latino/a, Chicano/a, or Mexican-American.
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42. The “one drop rule” was only historically applied to African American ancestry.
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False
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43. Which of the following is a racial category used by the U.S. Census Bureau?
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Asian
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44. Which of the following statements is true regarding the social matrix of race?
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We are active agents in the matrix, contributing the reproduction of social institutions.
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45. What is the term for the view that one does not see race or ethnicity, only humans?
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Color-blindness
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46. Hispanic is an ethnic category.
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True
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