Race And Ethnicity MCQ Questions Answers

1. On average, hispanics have __________ for every dollar whites have.

2. Latinos adhering to ________ hold beliefs similar to those of evangelicals.

3. The most serious resource shortage for many western tribes is __________.

4. Typically, people who live in _____ perceive fewer racial categories than people who live in _____.

5. Of the following, the most extreme example of internal colonialism is ________.

6. King Philip describes how One of Massasoit’s sons, King Philip gathered other tribes together and attacked the Separatists. After a bloody war, the tribes lost, and the Separatists put King Philip’s head on a pike for 20 years.

7. Bias that is hidden—even from the person who holds it; this type of bias occurs at the subconscious level and without conscious awareness is called

8. Rules for behavior that we take for granted as “normal” in everyday life is called

9. The ability to communicate and apply racial consciousness to new situations is called __________.

10. Racial consciousness is the ability to understand situations, problems, issues, and experiences in ways that focus on social relations, power imbalances, and the impacts of racist social arrangements.

11. Racial and ethnic impact assessments explain the policies that require identifying the impacts of policies and public decision-making on racial and ethnic groups to provide the information needed to dismantle systemic racism in approval processes.

12. Actions that people take on a regular basis is called

13. Rules for how institutions are organized and run that reflect and reinforce social norms and the structure of society is called

14. _______ is an ongoing social process whereby one group dominates another and uses power to maintain that unequal relationship.

15. A process whereby we recognize dehumanized people as full human beings deserving of the same rights, freedoms, and quality of life as everyone else is called

16. Reducing and reversing the scope and impact of racialized mass incarceration on society and finding alternative ways to solve problems like violence, victimization, and injustice is called

17. Relationships and cooperative efforts among different organizations is called

18. Baby bonds is a policy proposal that would reduce the racial wealth gap wherein children receive a bond at birth that is higher or lower inversely based on the wealth of their family and becomes available when they turn 18 to invest in education, homeownership, or other opportunities.

19. Researching the organizations, individuals, opportunities, and movements in your community so that you can make strategic connections with them is called asset mapping

20. Our innate ability to identify opportunities, make choices, and act is called

21. In active inclusion, the idea that we can only achieve justice if everyone who is impacted by a policy or decision is included in the deliberations and political processes that determine it.

22. The idea that Whiteness often goes unnamed and unnoticed and in this way maintains power is called

23. Coined by Robin DiAngelo, refers to the racial stress and defensive responses triggered when White people engage in conversations about race and privilege is called

24. Interest convergence describes that, Coined by Derrick Bell, interest convergence suggests that Whites will support an antiracist policy that directly benefits them, a policy in which their interests converge with the intended beneficiaries.

25. Acting in opposition to the racist operation of society on the individual, institutional, or societal level is called antiracism.

26. Composed of, combining, representing, relating to, or descended from several or many races is called

27. The privileging and use of monoracial norms in society, at both the individual and institutional level, that do not include or acknowledge multiraciality is called

28. Composed of, representing, relating to, or descended from a single racial category is called

29. Within or between people of the same race, of the same racial classification is called

30. Involving or between different races is called

31. The automatic assignment of biracial or multiracial people, by the dominant cultural group, to the singular racial category of a subordinate group in their ancestry is called

32. People who study, advocate for, or participate in the practice of “improving” the qualities of humans through the reduction or elimination of undesirable ______ traits are called eugenicists.

33. Actions, behaviors, objects, and symbols that communicate or reveal cultural meanings are called ________ texts.

34. Composed of, combining, representing, relating to, or descended from two races is called

35. Opposing or prohibiting marriage, sexual relations, and cohabitation between people of different races or racial categories is called Miscegenation

36. Political, economic, and military policies and programs aimed at ending terrorism both home and abroad is called

37. USA PATRIOT Act explains a collection of laws and policies designed to strengthen national security by allowing federal law enforcement agencies broader powers to monitor, arrest, and detain individuals suspected of terrorism (or potential terrorism).

38. Terror profiling explains Selectively targeting individuals, or groups, for increased surveillance and searches based on a combination of skin color, religious dress, Arabic name, and/or national origin in an attempt to prevent terrorist attacks.

39. Persons or groups blamed for prevailing social, economic, or political problems is called

40. Reform Judaism is a liberal and progressive denomination defined by its willingness to change Orthodox customs, practices, and even ______.

41. The process of ascribing racial characteristics to a group of people is called

42. State-sanctioned violent attacks aimed at the extermination of particular ethnic or religious groups is called

43. The ideologies and practices that produce distorted images and knowledge about Arab peoples and culture, Middle Eastern geography, and Islam as a religion is called

44. Operation Boulder explains a screening program, primarily targeting Arabs, implemented after the _____ Olympic bombings in Munich, Germany, designed to keep terrorists out of the United States.

45. Naturalization cases explains Court cases determining the eligibility of immigrants to become ______ citizens

46. An African American and Black religious movement focused on Black liberation and self-determination influenced by Islamic teachings, practices, and values is called Nation of Islam

47. A religious identity referring to a follower of Islam is called

48. ________ is a contested and ambiguous geographic area including regions of North Africa and western Asia.

49. Irrational fear or prejudice against Islam as a religion and/or Muslims as people is called

50. COINTELPRO is a set of FBI programs designed to surveil, disrupt, and infiltrate civil rights and other political organizations such as the Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and Southern Christian Leadership Council.

51. Arab is an ethnic and/or linguistic identity claimed by individuals who speak Arabic and/or whose family heritage is traced to one of the _____ countries of the Arab League of Nations.

52. Attitudes used to justify practices resulting in discrimination, exploitation, and/or exclusion of Jews or those perceived to be _______ is called Anti-Semitism.

53. Oversimplified description of a group, image, or idea is called

54. An umbrella term that encompasses several subgroups is called Pan - ethnic category

55. The Office of Management and Budget sets the standards by which government agencies racially classify groups.

56. The process through which an immigrant gains citizenship. The process through which an immigrant gains citizenship is called

57. Gender-neutral classification that refers to people who possess Latin American ancestry is called Latinx

58. Money brought into a household from various sources during a given period is called

59. Identities Refers to understandings of self or the meaning people hold for themselves that defines what it means to be who they are as persons.

60. Refers to a group of people who share social or _______ characteristics such as nationality, language, or religion is called Ethnic Group.

61. _________ refers to the unequal treatment of people based on their race, ethnicity, and/or gender.

62. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) describes a policy that enables people who came to the United States before age ____ to apply for “deferred action” and a work permit.

63. A system of power that provides people privileges or disadvantages based on their skin color is called

64. Chicano movements explains civil rights movement responsible for the extension of labor rights to farmworkers, the extension of voting rights to linguistic citizen minorities (e.g., Spanish-speaking Latinxs), and engaging in cultural and community projects throughout the U.S. Southwest.

65. A power for self-determination and a call against racism, imperialism, and inequality is called

66. A stereotype introduced in the _____ to describe the threats of Asian immigration is called Yellow Peril.

67. Women who were promised in marriage via matchmakers in their home countries who made recommendations based on the exchange of pictures between the potential bride and groom is called

68. A pejorative label applied to people from Asia emphasizing their inferiority to and difference from people from _______ nations is called Oriental.

69. A historic Eurocentric term used to describe the “________” implying that people, commodities, and cultures from Asia were exotic and subordinate to “the West” is called The Orient.

70. The forced removal, relocation, and incarceration of Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals in the United States is called

71. Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act in ________ _ reversed the national origins quota system of immigration that had governed U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s; prioritized family reunification, focused on employment-based or skills-based immigration, and welcomed refugees.

72. A legislative response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that authorized the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent and resident aliens of Japan is called

73. Chinese Exclusion Act in ________ explains the Legislation that created a moratorium on Chinese labor immigration, effectively banning all Chinese immigration; unique in that it engaged in class and race-based immigration discrimination.

74. Refers to the specific obstacles that Asian Americans face in attaining senior leadership positions is called

75. A pan-ethnic label created in ______ to unite Asian ethnic groups for collective action and challenge the derogatory term Oriental is called Asian American.

76. Wages of Whiteness describe the social status provided to poor Whites simply because they are White and not Black.

77. Voting Rights Act of ________ describes the Prohibited voter suppression and discrimination.

78. Reconstruction describes the decade after the Civil War when newly freed Black people gained citizenship rights, land, and political representation. It lasted from 1865 to _______.

79. Latin for “that which is brought forth follows the womb.” Law passed in the colony of Virginia in _______ that made it clear that a child would be enslaved or free based on the condition of the mother is called Partus sequitur ventrem.

80. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People explains that it was founded by an organization in ______ of women and men, Black and White, that promotes racial equality and fights to stop violence and injustice toward Black Americans.

81. Living while black explains the regular and varied injustices that occur to Black people in the United States because they are ________.

82. State and local laws that legalized and enforced racial segregation and discrimination is called ____________ laws.

83. The Hayes-Tilden Compromise of ________ explains a secret negotiation between Republican presidential candidate Rutherford Hayes and Southern Democrats. Hayes agreed to remove the remaining federal troops from the South so he could secure their vote and win the election. This compromise officially ended Reconstruction.

84. The explosion of Black social, intellectual, and artistic expression centered in Harlem during the 1920s and ______ is called the Harlem Renaissance.

85. The selling or renting of Black inmates, usually arrested for frivolous reasons, to a White person or the government for forced labor. A tool used after the end of slavery to control the Black population in a way similar to slavery is called Convict leasing.

86. Controlling images explains the term that was popularized by Patricia Hill Collins to refer to stereotypes and negative images that provide ideological justification for _______, class, and gender inequality.

87. Civil Rights Act of ______ describes the Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

88. Personal property that owners can do with as they wish. Enslaved people in colonial and U.S. society were seen as chattel.

89. Black Power movement is popularized by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) to encourage Black people to come together as a political force to meet the needs of Black people not being addressed by the government.

90. Black migration explains why a large amount of the Black Southern population left the harsh conditions of the South to find work and better opportunities initially in the North but also in the West during the _____ century.

91. Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) founded in________ to protest the continual racial injustices within the criminal justice system, it initially focused on police brutality and police shootings of Black women and men.

92. Which Slogan that became popular during the 1960s and counteracted the negative prevailing perception of Black people’s bodies in the United States?

93. White privilege describes the taken-for-granted ways in which society advantages Whites.

94. The apparent connection between former president Trump’s controversial racial rhetoric and the commission of hate crimes documented in social research is called the _____ Effect.

95. Nostalgic and superficial connections to one’s ethnic origin are commonly practiced by White Americans is called Symbolic Ethnicity

96. Patterns of behavior established by a culture and regarded as normal or expected is called

97. The process through which social realities are created by society itself, rather than being natural, biological, or God-given is called

98. ________, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal dynamics that create and maintain a racial hierarchy that advantages Whites and hurts people of color is called Racism.

99. Process by which a person becomes a citizen of the United States is called

100. Johnson-Reed Immigration Act in the _______ immigration act intended to end immigration from southern and eastern European sources.