Race and Society Flashcards
In recent years, blacks’ overall equality level with whites has dropped from 71.5 percent to 71.1 percent in 2010. The Index, which has been published since 2005, notes a/an ________, especially in the areas of unemployment, insurance coverage, incarceration, economics, health, and education.
growing trend of increased inequality with whites
Later waves of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe were also subject to intense discrimination and prejudice. In particular, the dominant group saw ________ immigrants as the dregs of Europe and worried about the purity of the American race (Myers 2007).
Italian
Historically, the most recent large-scale Asian immigration has come from ________ and ________.
Korea: Vietnam
According to Samhan (2001), relations between Arab Americans and the dominant majority have been marked by mistrust, misinformation, and deeply entrenched beliefs. The ________ contributed significantly to cultural and political anti-Arab sentiment in the United States..
Arab-Israeli conflicts in the 1970s
This theory emphasizes the importance of interaction and communication between groups to reduce stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
Contact hypothesis
Race
Race is a socially constructed category that produces real effects on the actors who are racialized [2] and refers to physical differences that a particular society considers significant, such as skin color. In other words, a physical marker such as skin color, eye shape, hair type, or cheekbone shape, when paired with some other element(s) of social significance, could become a social cue for inclusion or exclusion in a certain group.
Stereotypes are not based on:
prejudice
Which federal act or program was designed to protect Hispanic American worker immigration, not block it?
The Bracero Program
Native Americans once numbered in the ________ but by 2010, they made up only________ of U.S. population (U.S. Census 2010).
Millions; 0.9 percent
By 1705, Virginia passed which of these laws? .
The slave codes which declared that any foreign-born non-Christian could be a slave, and be considered property.
According to Henri Tajfel’s social identity theory (1979), people examine their own identity in light of perceived group membership. He says that we tend to increase our self-image by enhancing the status of the group to which we belong. Therefore, we divide the world into “them” and “us” or in-groups and out-groups with heightened prejudicial attitudes toward the out-groups.
Because people often experience multiple layers of disadvantage as they experience race, ________ suggests that we must also understand that prejudice can be layered prejudice, often encompassing more than one prejudice or stereotype at a time.
According to ________, racism is one way to justify racial inequality in society.
functionalism
