Final exam

Question 1

What language

Answer 1

Bantu speaking

Question 2

Trekking movement

Answer 2

Colonists moved in land they came into conflict with a variety of native tribes

Question 3

Boer’s

Answer 3

Increasingly distanced themselves european as they pushed in land

• Dutch control
• Africaner culture and language
• became white africans

Question 4

Apartheid

Answer 4

Institutionalized system of white supremacy that creates a social order of strict separation

Question 5

Pigmentacy- whites

Answer 5

Less than 10% of the population

• British and Africaner
• power and wealth

Question 6

Coloured

Answer 6

9% mixed race

Question 7

Asians

Answer 7

2% mostly Indians, middle men minority

Question 8

Africans

Answer 8

80% of the population political and economic oppression

Question 9

Dynamics of apartheid

Answer 9

Starts with the population registration act of 1950

• Everyone Hass to carry their passbook this was to ensure peace and order
• Most aspects of life are segregated example. Housing jobs education and government policies

Question 10

After apartheid

Answer 10

Major political social and economic changes government led by blacks

Question 11

South Africans and the US comparison

Answer 11

History of slavery, rigid classification, black under class.

-The only difference is that South Africas have black as dominant political group

Question 12

Brazil – race

Answer 12

North east: mostly black or Mullato poorest regions a carrion/under developed

Question 13

Southeast

Answer 13

Most industrialized Dash mostly European and wealthy

Question 14

Amazon basin

Answer 14

Indian and Euro Indian primitive and isolated

Question 15

Settlement and history

Answer 15

Sugarcane chief cash crop, slavery begins, large slave population

Question 16

Large scale immigration from Europe

Answer 16

Started from late 1800s

Dash mostly Italian Portuguese Spanish and German contributed to whitening society and diluting the black population

Question 17

Determining race

Answer 17

US - status at products of one’s dissent assigned a status based on ancestry

Question 18

Determining race in brazil

Answer 18

What is total appearance determines race race is more fluid and socially controlled

Question 19

Major race categories- Branco

Answer 19

White

Question 20

Prato

Answer 20

Black

Question 21

Pardo

Answer 21

Brown/Mulatto

Question 22

Class system

Answer 22

Whites are more likely to have political power economic power in high prestige jobs

Afro Brazilian make up the bulk of Brazil’s poor us educated population

Question 23

Whitening ideals

Answer 23

Social preference for white over black high preference for lighter skin spouses white is best and government policies

Question 24

Prejudice and discrimination

Answer 24

There’s still exists and ethnic based hierarchy white is still the ideal

• employment discrimination
• xuxa

Question 25

Afronzo Law

Answer 25

Brazilians first acknowledge that determining practices exist

Question 26

Horizontal Assimilation

Answer 26

Integration into various institutions including intermarriage residents and social interactions

Question 27

Vertical assimilation

Answer 27

Peoples positions on the class determined by income occupation and education

Question 28

Similarities between Brazil and US continued

Answer 28

African slavery - Native conquest - Racial divisions Les fixed - African culture is more integrated