RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 10 Quiz 

(1) _______: also known as systemic racism. Institutional normalization of whiteness. This is a feature of social institutions treating white perspectives as the norm (standard, default), while treating nonwhite perspectives as deviant or problematic.

A apartheid

B individual prejudice

C psychological bias

D white normativity

(2) According to Chapter 10, two present-day obstacles to genuine (versus rhetorical) African American inclusion are ______ and ______.

A racial democracy; de jure segregation

B white normativity; de facto segregation

C racial democracy; de facto segregation

D white normativity; de jure segregation

(3) White-normed institutions tend to produce racially disparate outcomes, with better ____ outcomes than ____ ones across many social and economic measures of well-being.

A white; nonwhite

B nonwhite; white

C male; female

D female; male

(4) Why is right-handed normativity a useful analogy for white normativity?

A It doesn’t depend on left-handers displaying any prejudicial intent toward righties.

B It depends on right-handers displaying prejudicial intent toward lefties.

C It doesn’t depend on right-handers displaying any prejudicial intent toward lefties.

D It depends on left-handers displaying prejudicial intent toward righties.

(5) Though federal law barred housing discrimination in 1968 (Fair Housing Act), ____ segregation remained a fundamental obstacle in the early twenty-first century to social, economic, and political opportunities for African Americans.

A de facto

B de novo

C de jure

D ex nihilo

(6) By 1970, ___% of black Americans lived in urban areas.

A 97

B 80

C 50

D 27

(7)______: federal rules against racial discrimination in housing markets.

A de facto segregation

B ghetto

C open housing

D de jure segregation

(8) Racial disparities in ______ quality and funding are exacerbated by _____ segregation. This is because public school district funding is based on local real estate values and property taxes. Poor communities in the U.S. usually don’t have access to well-funded education, and blacks are much more likely to be poor than are whites.

A school; racial democracy

B school; housing

C housing; racial democracy

D housing; charter

(9) In ______(1974), the Supreme Court, though continuing to oppose de jure school segregation, effectively upheld de facto educational segregation:

A U.S. v. Cruikshank

B Brown v. Board of Education

C Terry v. Ohio

D Milliken v. Bradley

(10) ______: the disparities in test scores, grade point averages, and/or high school and college completion rates between white students and black and/or Latina/o students.

A gender pay gap

B racial continuum

C gender continuum

D racial achievement gap