Racial Inequality After Racism Flashcards
In what year was this article published?
a. 2013
b. 2014
c. 2015
d. 2016
2015
Americans broadly accept, at least in principle, the basic premises of legal, social, and political equality across all racial lines.
a. True
b. False
True
This article suggests that the US is not a post-racial but a post-racist society because:
a. We have not made progress in developing diversity in the workplace, in schools, and in public settings.
b. the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s have been ineffective
c. Public integration has been a failure
d. Income, employment, education, health, housing, and criminal justice for African Americans and other minorities of color have continued to lag behind whites.
Income, employment, education, health, housing, and criminal justice for African Americans and other minorities of color have continued to lag behind whites.
The main explanation for this problem lies in the
a. Control of either the left or the right of most of the political power of this country
b. Historical legacies of civic, social, and economic institutions that continue to affect marginalized communities in deeply unequal ways
c. Inability of individuals to succeed
d. None of the above is correct.
Historical legacies of civic, social, and economic institutions that continue to affect marginalized communities in deeply unequal ways
A financial stress test applied to institutional racism could reveal:
a. Faulty assumptions
b. A lack of internal safeguards
c. Unrecognized biases
d. All of the above
All of the above
According to the article, many white Americans, especially those on the political right, believe that racism has by now become close to irrelevant.
a. True
b. False
True
“Laissez-faire racism” refers to the idea that:
a. People should be able to believe what they want to
b. Racial inequality is attributed to the incapacity of minorities themselves
c. Racism that no longer exists
d. Common stereotypes held by whites about blacks are false
Racial inequality is attributed to the incapacity of minorities themselves
What led to welfare cutbacks of the 1990s that disproportionately hurt people of color?
a. A need for economic austerity
b. Laissez-faire racism
c. New Deal welfare that replaced it
d. America becoming more colorblind
Laissez-faire racism
The fundamental pattern of many conservative approaches to racial inequality is that:
a. Black poverty is a result of innate cultural traits that black communities share
b. The War on Poverty that President Lyndon Johnson launched in the 1960s is sufficient to address current concerns.
c. Inequality can be blamed on unemployment, family disruption, and violence
d. Institutions and historical factors play a more important role than first thought
Black poverty is a result of innate cultural traits that black communities share
Of the following, which is NOT a reason why deindustrialization affected white and black communities differently?
a. Service industry jobs replaced industrial ones creating a sharper dividing line between those with higher educations and those without
b. Working-class whites had better connections to job networks than people of color
c. Working-class whites, in general, had relatively greater access to family wealth that acted as a buffer during downtimes
d. Deindustrialization affected people in rural areas and suburbs more than people who lived in urban centers
Deindustrialization affected people in rural areas and suburbs more than people who lived in urban centers
What do your authors refer to as “dog whistle” messaging?
a. Explicit expressions of prejudice are now frowned on
b. Racist messages are much more hidden in order to plausibly deny any specific racist intent
c. Racist messages are still explicit
d. None of the above are true
Racist messages are much more hidden in order to plausibly deny any specific racist intent
Today, however, when polled nearly 90% of Americans are in favor of school integration and interracial marriage.
a. True
b. False
True
Which of the following has had more limited success in implementation
a. Antidiscrimination policies for public and private employers, universities, and the military
b. Full voting rights for minorities
c. Desegregation of the US educational system
d. Interracial marriage
Desegregation of the US educational system
Although rates of incarceration of blacks and whites were approximately the same for much of the Jim Crow Era racial differences began emerging and widen beginning with what decade?
a. 1950s
b. 1960s
c. 1970s
d. 1980s
1970s
What happened after the Jim Crow Era that could be seen as a catalyst for the incarceration rates for blacks to go up relative to whites?
a. Riots in US cities in the late 1960s and early 1970s erupted as an aftermath of the civil rights movement
b. There was a rising black middle class and poverty rates declined
c. Thousands of blacks ascended to public office
d. Several new laws at the federal and state level were instituted that acted as a stealth counterweight to black political and economic progress
Several new laws at the federal and state level were instituted that acted as a stealth counterweight to black political and economic progress
