Final exam

Question 1

Wealth inequality by race

Answer 1

Due to housing discrimination - wealth is the total of assets which includes house. Wealth gap increased

Question 2

criminal justice system

Answer 2

Majority of drug users are white, but 75 percent of those imprisoned for drug charges are Black/Hispanic Americans

Trafficking is everywhere, but police target low income

Rationalized by colorblind rhetoric

Unable to escape the labeling of felony

Question 3

push-pull factors

Answer 3

Forces that encourage migration.

Pull - inducements to seek better
Push - discouragement of remaining

Question 4

Bracero program

Answer 4

A temporary worker program for mexican agricultural workers to enter to work and then leave post harvest

Question 5

Chicano power

Answer 5

United Farm Workers, Advocacy for better wages and working conditions for migrant laborers

Question 6

Mexicans

Answer 6

Highest immigration and birth rate

Second highest poverty rate

mexicans no longer a majority for unauthorized immigrants

Question 7

Cubans

Answer 7

4th largest population

Third highest poverty rate

Immigration since 1960 – Cuban revolution, displaced bourgeoise

1980s: lower and working class

Positive SES indicators

Question 8

Puerto Ricans

Answer 8

Second largest population

First highest poverty rate

Forced Americanization

Shuttle migration - back and forth between home and US

1946-1964 was greatest migration period

Question 9

The Latino paradox

Answer 9

a finding that most hispanics are more healthy than most white americans despite having less

Question 10

soujourner

Answer 10

Immigrant who comes to work and then hopes to go back

Question 11

The Yellow Peril

Answer 11

racist metaphor that depicts Chinese as a threat to the Western world

Question 12

Chinese Exclusion act

Answer 12

the first
human embargo by the
U.S. government toward a
particular “race” of
immigrants

Question 13

Koreans

Answer 13

West Coast about 40-60 years post 1850

large scale immigration post Korean war

highest self employment rate

human, economic & social capital

Question 14

Vietnamese

Answer 14

Involuntary immigration (Vietnam war) - Refugees

lower SES, higher poverty and unemployment

adjustment problems (scattered throughout us, viet prioritizes community)

Question 15

Refugees

Answer 15

Someone unable/unwilling to return to their native country out of fear of persecution

Question 16

Model minority stereotype

Answer 16

minority groups that have achieved high success in American society – obscures heterogeneity, justifies racial inequality, pits racial groups against each other, treats asians as a race apart

Question 17

Los Angeles riots

Answer 17

multiracial riots -
Korean merchants
as a middleman
minority

Question 18

characteristics of Arab and Middle eastern immigration historical

Answer 18

1870s-WWII: mostly from Lebanon, Christian, migration caused by poverty and religious persecution

• low SES
• not politically involved in the U.S.
• sojourners and middleman minority
• homeland orientation; avoidance of contact with Americans
• Assimilation trends after WWI

Question 19

Looking glass self

Answer 19

the process wherein individuals base their sense of self on how they believe others view them

Question 20

double consciousness

Answer 20

Being Black and American at the same time – a contradictory experience. blackness as constructed through the eyes of white America

Question 21

Alien Land Law (1913)

Answer 21

Restriction of the acquisition of land by Asian
immigrant groups (on condition of U.S. citizenship
as a requisite)

Question 22

Immigration Act of 1917

Answer 22

Barred immigration from Asian-Pacific

Question 23

Johnson Reed Act

Answer 23

federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe

Question 24

McCarran-Walter Act

Answer 24

End of racial requirements to US citizenship

Question 25

Hart-Celler Act

Answer 25

eliminated the restrictive nationality-based immigration quotas

1) professional immigrants; 2)
family reunification

resulted in diversification of immigrant origin populations

Question 26

Chinese

Answer 26

the first Asian group to come to
Hawaii in the 1830s; further migration to the U.S. in the 1850s

Question 27

Filipinos

Answer 27

2/3 in medicine post 1965 immigration

Question 28

Japanese American incarceration

Answer 28

imprisoned for sake of national security

racial justification

response to public and political pressure

Question 29

The Veil

Answer 29

metaphor for racial division – divide between blacks and whites

Question 30

characteristics of Arab and Middle eastern immigration present

Answer 30

WWII-present: more diverse origin countries, Christian AND muslim, migration due to political instability and wars

Question 31

Intermarriage trends

Answer 31

Asian + Hispanics more likely to intermarry with a spouse of a different race – higher among youth and US born

Challenges the rigid binary system

Question 32

Immigration issues

Answer 32

Attitudes toward Mexican immigrations (Criminals, foreigners, stealers of jobs) being put into immigration laws

Question 33

Assimilation issues

Answer 33

Struggling to make ends meet, discrimination, limited english proficiency, noncitizens

Question 34

Indicators of assimilation

Answer 34

highest median family income, lowest poverty rate, naturalization, high intermarriage