Exam 7 & 8

Question 1

What is white privilege?

Answer 1

Privileges we are born with simply from being white. We are talking about whites in the macro level.

Question 2

Do all white people share in white privilege equally?

Answer 2

No, it varies by my many factors including class, and gender

Question 3

Why do white people not share in white privilege the same?

Answer 3

Representation in media, access to beauty products easier, access to bandages available in your skin color, you don’t get the “credit to your race comment”, studying history and it’s more from your racial group than others, not having to think about race a lot when not taking the class

Question 4

Peggy Macintosh says that white privilege is like having a package of unearned advantages that you are meant to be oblivious to but you can use on a daily basis. True or False

Answer 4

True

Question 5

In the opening story of Riverview High School, the researchers explain that it is not just a good school, but a _______, _______ school.

Answer 5

good, diverse

Question 6

In 1926, a comprehensive study of Indian schools showed that the boarding schools’ budget for feeding children was only ______ per day ($1.41 in today’s currency).

Answer 6

11 cents per day

Question 7

Schools for Mexican American children were designed “Americanize” them. Which of the following was NOT part of the curriculum?

Answer 7

math

Question 8

What is the model minority myth?

Answer 8

It is where Asian Americans are held to a very high standard to all be considered good at math, music, and grades

Question 9

On the 2006 ACT exam, what were the mean composite scores for White vs. African American and Latino students?

Answer 9

26 vs 18

Question 10

Which were identified as a motivating factor for American Indian/Native Americans to stay in college?

Answer 10

being a role model to community, having parents proud of them, and giving back to the community after graduation

Question 11

Who is considered white?

Answer 11

Europe, Middle East, or North Africa. People who indicate their race as white (caucasian, irish, etc. ) It is fluid and constantly in flux

Question 12

What is “white people of color”?

Answer 12

Started as Latinos and Latinas especially who identify as white but not everyone else would identify them as white. It’s where it’s a racialized category.

Question 13

Latino is a racialized category. true or false?

Answer 13

true

Question 14

What is true of children who come from higher income households?

Answer 14

They are more likely to earn a college degree, They generally score higher on tests, and they have 7x higher chance of going to college

Question 15

Which of the following sociological explanations for the achievement gap has been all but debunked?

Answer 15

Oppositional culture thesis

Question 16

How many adults over the age of 25 have a bachelor’s degree?

Answer 16

One third

Question 17

why are Native Americans, Latinos, and African Americans are less likely than whites to have a college degree?

Answer 17

They are in a financially precarious

Question 18

Those of middle eastern and Northern Africa are considered white in census right now? True or False?

Answer 18

True, but they have requested to be their own category.

Question 19

Are latinos likely to be the largest group that would identify as more than one race?

Answer 19

No, Someone who is white and black was the largest.

Question 20

At Riverside High School, what percentage of white students vs. black and Latino students will attend four-year colleges?

Answer 20

90%, 60%

Question 21

Before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, children who were not white were prevented from attending white schools under the doctrine of ________________?

Answer 21

Separate but Equal

Question 22

3. Which type of school were Native American children NOT encouraged to attend?

Answer 22

Local public schools outside of reservations

Question 23

What are honorary whites?

Answer 23

White people that identify as white or look white but they don’t have the same privilege. (asians, latinos)

Question 24

Which of the following was NOT a school segregation case?

Answer 24

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 25

Mary Tape was the mother of Mamie, the Chinese American child who was forbidden to attend the local white school closest to her home. What did Mary Tape do in response to this discrimination?

Answer 25

Wrote a letter

Question 26

In Mendez v. Westminster, Gonzalo and Felicítas Méndez sued several schools for having separate Mexican schools and not allowing Mexican or Mexican American children attend white schools. How many families joined the lawsuit?

Answer 26

5,000

Question 27

In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, which banned the consideration of race in higher education admissions. Admission rates in the University of California system fell dramatically. After the proposition passed, what percentage did admissions of underrepresented students fall at UC Berkley?

Answer 27

61%

Question 28

Which of the following is a recommended strategy to help retain Native American college students?

Answer 28

Maintain connections to family and tribal communities incorrect, Address single-parent students and students with family issues, and Provide academic assistance through peer mentoring incorrect

Question 29

A phrase used to refer to nonwhites who are perceived as behaving in ways associated with white people is:

Answer 29

Acting white

Question 30

What is social whitening

Answer 30

a person become whiter as a result of social status or inner marriage

Question 31

Cultural resources that offer social and other benefits is called:

Answer 31

Cultural capitol

Question 32

In the opening story, Kevin Johnson wonders what it must be like to:

Answer 32

be unambiguously white

Question 33

W.E.B. DuBois argued that white workers received a psychological _______________ by aligning with the dominant group. They were poor, but at least they were white.

Answer 33

wage of whiteness

Question 34

In 2015, a white Stanford student named Brock Allen Turner was found sexually assaulting an unconscious, semi-naked woman behind a dumpster. The jury found him guilty on three felony counts. Instead of getting six years in prison, his white and class privilege, the judge sentenced him to:

Answer 34

six months

Question 35

In Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person, the author said that the concept of ________________ helped her understand white privilege.

Answer 35

intersectionality

Question 36

What is cultural whitening?

Answer 36

Is born indian for example but takes on acculturates the more white culture, and so is considered more white because of that.

Question 37

Does a persons skin actually change with social or culture whitening?

Answer 37

No

Question 38

Claudine Pied (2019) found that poor and working-class white residents drew on raced and classed ideologies to position themselves as:

Answer 38

Hardworking and deserving people

Question 39

Even today non white children still don't have the same access in education. True or False?

Answer 39

True

Question 40

White privilege works differently for working-class and poor whites as it does for wealthier whites.True or False?

Answer 40

True

Question 41

It is useful to look at ________ _________, as official classifications that both reflect and reinforce social categories.

Answer 41

Census Categories

Question 42

In the 1989 Latino National Political Survey, 32% of respondents with "very dark" skin identified as:

Answer 42

White

Question 43

In a study of Lebanese immigrants in Michigan, Lebanese Shi'a Muslims enjoyed the privilege of being white unless they:

Answer 43

chose to wear hijab

Question 44

Which of the following categories was NOT included in the first census?

Answer 44

Free Blacks

Question 45

Which of the following proves Latino is an ethnicity?

Answer 45

All Latinos have Spanish heritage incorrect, all Latinos speak Spanish incorrect, All Latinos are connected through indigenous roots incorrect

Question 46

What is the term for immigrants who adopt the racial identities of their host countries?

Answer 46

racialized assimilation

Question 47

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Answer 47

There are benefits to being classified as white, White men's whiteness is much less likely to be put into question, Whiteness is seen as "normal." incorrect

Question 48

Who is white has?

Answer 48

It has changed over time

Question 49

According to some sociologists, light-skinned Latinos have achieved:

Answer 49

honorary whiteness

Question 50

Whiteness is the ___________ in U.S. Society.

Answer 50

Unmarked norm

Question 51

Which of the following is NOT a content that exists in the invisible knapsack of white privilege?

Answer 51

I can marry whomever I please because whiteness is valued by other racial groups. correct

Question 52

There are privileges that people can be born into, not things you earned, that afford you opportunities that other do not have. Which of the following is NOT one of those privileges?

Answer 52

Intelligence

Question 53

5. Many North Africans, do not view themselves as

Answer 53

white

Question 54

4. Some scholars argue that Latinos are a _____________ and thus are all non-white.

Answer 54

racialized other

Question 55

How many Native American children attended in the US government created schools in 1926?

Answer 55

70 of the 84,000

Question 56

There are privileges that people can be born into, not things you earned, that afford you opportunities that other do not have. Is intelligence a privilege?

Answer 56

No

Question 57

Richard Henry Pratt, first founder of boarding school believed what about native Americans? (Carlisle indian school_

Answer 57

they were savage and needed to be saved. Philosophies of "kill the indian, save the man"

Question 58

what were conditions like for Native American schools?

Answer 58

Brutal punishment for running away, succumb to disease easier, many died from diseases, they were given new names and had to cut their hair and removed all aspect of their culture. They could not practice their religion either.

Question 59

What percentage of multiracial people identified as both Black and White?

Answer 59

20%

Question 60

During slavery, enslaved people were counted as _____ of a person for the purpose of determining congressional representation?

Answer 60

3/5ths

Question 61

By what year did the Brookings Institute predict the United States would no longer be a white-majority society?

Answer 61

2045

Question 62

Are Latinos a Race or Ethnicity?

Answer 62

It's complicated

Question 63

Are school segregated again?

Answer 63

Sometimes yes. Since 1991, its not forced. They don't have to pay for busing any more.

Question 64

What is affirmative action?

Answer 64

a set of procedures that ensure that people are treated without regard to certain characteristics, such as race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. to combat ongoing discrimination. By allowing race an indicator, it was supposed to boost more diversity actually. It's not always used that way or can discriminate against others.

Question 65

Why are affirmative action policies supposed to meet a quota for a diversity plan?

Answer 65

affirmative action programs allow admission committees to use racial diversity on whether to admit a schools and university to admit students who is diverse. They can meet more quotas for diversity at the school, and get more funding.

Question 66

the plaintiffs argue that affirmative action denies equal opportunity to white students. True or False.

Answer 66

True

Question 67

with educational inequality today, all court cases shed light on the fact that US education system can approve. True or False?

Answer 67

true

Question 68

One inequality for Latinos is the model minority myth. True or False

Answer 68

False, this regards Asian Americans

Question 69

How is model minority myth not helpful for Asian Americans?

Answer 69

it dismisses any individuality, it pretends that they didn't experience discrimination and that they have a "perfect" life and erases history.

Question 70

are non-white children put on a college track at the same rate as white children?

Answer 70

no. white children are on college tracks and non-white children aren't as much through placement of classes.

Question 71

Educational inequality continues to exist. True or False?

Answer 71

True

Question 72

Sociologist Vincent Resigno and James Ainsworth Darnell and found what ?

Answer 72

they found that those in family socioeconomic status could explain about half of the difference between white and non white children.

Question 73

What is the achievement gap?

Answer 73

racial outcomes includes parental status, parental education, as well as cultural explanations including the oppositional culture thesis.

Question 74

What is symbolic violence?

Answer 74

According to Pierre Berdough makes the dominant group's norms appear to be superior. Ex: the standard form of English is an indication of intelligence versus working class English is considered ignorance. (dominant groups preferences is right and everyone else's not better)

Question 75

What is the oppositional culture thesis?

Answer 75

This thesis has 2 basic components. African American children don't do well in school because they have to "Act white", and they have experienced white spread discrimination and pushed oppositional culture to it.