RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION

Chapter 11 Quiz

(1) The timeline (Table 11.1), spanning ___ years, illustrates not only breaks with apartheid but also continuities.

A 5

B 25

C 50

D 70

(2) 2014. Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy, dies after being shot by police while playing with a toy gun in a park near his home in Cleveland, Ohio. This event illustrates:

A apartheid

B racialized police abuse

C federal retreat from civil rights advances

D racial democracy

(3) Which demographic measures indicate significant ongoing social distance between blacks and whites?

A low intermarriage; low residential segregation

B high intermarriage; low residential segregation

C low intermarriage; high residential segregation

D high intermarriage; high residential segregation

(4) _____: the lived experience of many people of color (and colonized peoples worldwide) of seeing themselves simultaneously from two perspectives, nonwhite and white.

A racial democracy

B white normalization

C mass incarceration

D double consciousness

(5) The 1976 Detroit Area Survey (and other later surveys) found that blacks and whites largely _____ on the meaning of racial “integration.”

A  disagree

B compromise

C agree

D fixate

(6) Whereas alternative styles of policing promote good relations with marginalized community members, ______ emphasizes violence and repression akin to military occupation of a conquered population.

A rehabilitative policing

B police duty

C police abuse

D community policing

(7) _______: black and brown people in public places (e.g., walking, shopping, driving cars) are stopped, questioned, and searched far more frequently than are whites.

A rehabilitative policing

B racial profiling

C gender profiling

D community policing

(8) In 2010, ______ were seven times more likely than _____ and two and a half times more likely than Hispanic men to be incarcerated.

A white men; black men

B black men; white men

C white women; black women

D black women; white women

(9) _______: largely unconscious anti-black racism; it has been especially damaging in associating black males with “inherent” criminality.

A colorblindness

B explicit racial bias

C white normativity

D implicit racial bias

(10) In healthcare, black and brown patients are systematically _____ for pain.

A overtreated

B attended to

C undertreated

D listened to