(CO611) Chapter 4 - Quiz Flashcards
Chapter 4: Understanding Racism, Prejudice, and White Privilege
Which of the following terms refers to the manipulation of societal foundations to give preferences and advantages to whites and at the same time restrict the choices, rights, mobility, and access to people of color?
a. institutional racism
b. cultural racism
c. ethnocentrism
d. white privilege
a. institutional racism
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. All human beings hold prejudices.
b. Prejudice plus power equals racism.
c. Children often are empathetic to stories
of racism from people of color; adults are less so.
d. Cultural racism in an individual is also known as ethnorelativism.
d. Cultural racism in an individual is also known as ethnorelativism.
The tendency to stick to your in-group, where you are most comfortable, often leads to ________.
a. categorical thinking
b. limited communication and fewer misunderstandings
c. perceiving members of the out-group as a threat
d. heightened interest and myths involving positive attributes of the out-group
c. perceiving members of the out-group as a threat
Weinstein and Mellen defined the term ________ as “an undifferentiated, simplistic attribution that involves a judgment of habits, traits, abilities, or expectations… assigned as a characteristic of all members of a group.”
a. racism
b. rankism
c. prejudice
d. stereotype
d. stereotype
Without the existence of some form of ________, an individual’s potential for racism remains largely dormant.
a. internal motivation
b. external motivation
c. microaggressions
d. implicit bias
a. internal motivation
Which theory regarding the psychological motivation behind prejudice and racism could also be known as the kick-the-dog theory?
a. authoritarian personality
b. frustration-aggression-displacement hypothesis
c. self-regulation of prejudice
d. Taifel’s Social Identity Theory
b. frustration-aggression-displacement hypothesis
Which theory regarding the psychological motivation behind prejudice and racism refers to the persistent abuse and discrimination based on power differences of being a somebody or a nobody?
a. Taifel’s Social Identity Theory
b. Rankism
c. Frustration-aggression-displacement theory
d. Self-regulation of practice
b. Rankism
Which statement most accurately describes racial microaggressions?
a. They are small and repetitive slights routinely experienced by people of color.
b. They are less destructive than overt racist acts.
c. They tend to be conscious acts since the bias behind them is hard-wired in the brain.
d. They have not been well researched, so findings tend to be more anecdotal.
a. They are small and repetitive slights routinely experienced by people of color.
In many ways, ________ racism is far more insidious than ________ racism because it is embedded in bylaws, rules, practices, procedures, and organizational culture.
a. individual; institutional
b. institutional; individual
c. cultural; institutional
d. individual; cultural
b. institutional; individual
A large supermarket chain advertises a sale on turkeys, stuffing mixes, and pumpkin-flavored desserts with the tagline “Everything for your Thanksgiving feast!” This is an example of ________.
a. ethnocentrism
b. institutional racism
c. cultural racism
d. a stereotype
c. cultural racism
Which of the following statements about white privilege is FALSE?
a. It is visible to most whites.
b. It involves unearned power.
c. It cannot be given away.
d. It often is met with defensiveness and denial.
a. It is visible to most whites.
In the framework put forth by Rowe, Behrens, and Leach for understanding how white European Americans think about race and racial differences, the ________ racial attitude types are the most changeable.
a. achieved
b. unachieved
c. reactive
d. unreactive
b. unachieved
According to Rowe, Behrens, and Leach’s framework, a person who opposed outright discrimination, but also opposed affirmative action would be classified as having a(n) ________ attitude.
a. dominative
b. conflictive
c. integrative
d. reactive
b. conflictive
According to Helms’ model of white racial identity development, which stage begins with the individual’s internalization of the majority culture’s view of people of color and the advantages of white privilege?
a. contact status
b. disintegration status
c. reintegration status
d. pseudoindependent status
a. contact status
A cultural ally is:
a. a white person who actively works to eliminate racism.
b. an expert on marginalized group culture.
c. willing to take a stand only if marginalized group members are present.
d. dismissive of the experiences of marginalized group members.
a. a white person who actively works to eliminate racism.
