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Racism and Racial Inequalities MCQ

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are ways in which racism can be challenged?

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Correct Answer: Education
Social movements
Participating in political processes

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Access to voting is restricted from those who are convicted of a felony.

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Correct Answer: True

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People in America have the same opportunities, regardless of race.

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Correct Answer: False

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SELECT ALL THAT APPY. ______ and ______ are two social institutions that continue to perpetuate racism due to their structural inequality.

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Correct Answer: School
Criminal Justice System

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______ is known as the policies created by the Federal Housing Agency in the 1930s which used race to determine the value of a neighborhood.

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Correct Answer: Redlining

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______ made African Americans second-class citizens, which ultimately limited their rights.

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Correct Answer: Jim Crow Laws

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______ in the late 1800s and early 1900s restricted agricultural land ownership to citizens on the West Coast.

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Correct Answer: Alien Land Acts

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What year did the U.S. federal government make racial restrictions on immigrants illegal?

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Correct Answer: 1952

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Historically, racial categories were enforced to give which of the following groups social and economic advantages?

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Correct Answer: Whites

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______ is a system of advantages and disadvantages based on race.

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Correct Answer: Racism

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______ constitutes individual biases and belief systems that attribute characteristics to a group of people so that we prejudge group members.

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Correct Answer: Prejudice

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SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are considered social agents?

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Correct Answer: Parents
Educators
Peers

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______ coined the term double consciousness.

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Correct Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois

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______ is the process of assigning people a race, along with the personality, behavioral and social characteristics associated with that race.

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Correct Answer: Racialization

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Race is considered a ______ rather than a biological reality.

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Correct Answer: Social construct

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When White families move after people of color move into their neighborhood, for fear of living by black and brown people or that their homes will lose much of their value when the neighborhood becomes racially integrated is called

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Correct Answer: White flight

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Voter suppression is Efforts to limit the voting potential of a given population through indirect measures

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Correct Answer: True

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Collective actions meant to influence social change is known as

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Correct Answer: Social movements

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Policies that made the racial composition of a neighborhood a central variable in determining its value and therefore determining the eligibility for mortgage loans in those areas is called

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Correct Answer: Red lining

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A system of advantage and disadvantage based on race; these advantages and disadvantages exist because of institutional, historical, ideological, economic, and political forces is called

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Correct Answer: Racism

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_________ is the process of assigning people a race, along with the personality, behavioral, and social characteristics associated with that race, based on physical or cultural cues

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Correct Answer: Racialization

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___________ is using race to screen for problematic individual behaviors

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Correct Answer: Racial profiling

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Unearned advantages based on race is called

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Correct Answer: Racial privilege

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The differential treatment of people based on their race is known as

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Correct Answer: Racial discrimination

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A category of identity that is determined by the society that surrounds it; in the United States is called

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Correct Answer: Race

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Individual biases and ______ that attribute characteristics to a group of people so that we prejudge group members is called Prejudice

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Correct Answer: Belief systems

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Common, seemingly innocent statements or questions that reflect racial biases and perceptions about a group’s intelligence and worth is called

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Correct Answer: Microaggressions

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Laws established by former Confederate states that effectively guaranteed second-class citizenship for people of color, limiting the citizenship rights and emancipation that the 14th Amendment had provided is called Jim Crow Laws

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Correct Answer: 14th Amendment

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Gentrification is a process that occurs when wealthier (and therefore often whiter) people buy dilapidated homes in _________, thereby pushing out working class and poor communities (usually of color)

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Correct Answer: Poor communities

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A cultural category marking shared traditions and communities, which may be based on religion, national origin, or other cultural practices is called Ethnicity

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Correct Answer: True

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Material resources, including income, property, and wealth is called Economic capital

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Correct Answer: True

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African Americans’ dual awareness of who they know themselves to be and how others see them according to racial stereotypes and expectations is called

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Correct Answer: Double consciousness

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Intensely familiar racial stereotypes reinforced by media representations and political discourse, which influence public policy and perpetuate racial inequality is called

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Correct Answer: Controlling images

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The assertion that race no longer matters and that any persisting racial inequalities are best explained by individual efforts or imagined cultural traits is called Color-blind racism

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Correct Answer: True

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