RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION
Chapter 7 Quiz
(1) ____________: different social groups experience the world in overlapping yet distinctive ways.
A whiteness by inspection
B social whiteness
C the social construction of reality
D whiteness by decency
(2) “Western Europeans invented race to explain and justify global colonization: first to themselves, then to colonized others.” This statement is an example of…
A social whiteness
B the social construction of race
C legal whiteness
D reflexivity
(3) Like older “us-them” distinctions, race emerged as a(n) ______ concept. Europeans (1500s) proposed a world hierarchy of peoples, with themselves at the top.
A unreal
B decency
C relational
D unimportant
(4) “The assumption that America was meant to be a homogeneous white nation, inhabited chiefly by members of the Anglo-Saxon and closely related ‘races,’ was strongly established by the time the Constitution went into effect. One of its most dramatic manifestations was the passage of a ______law by Congress in 1790 which expressly limited the acquisition of citizenship to white immigrants.”
A naturalization
B tax
C voting
D inheritance
(5) Even if groups attained ________, like Mexican Americans after 1848, ________ often remained elusive.
A legal whiteness; social whiteness
B social construction of race; social whiteness
C legal whiteness; social construction of race
D whiteness by decency; legal whiteness
(6) ________: whiteness is an impersonal, visual, inspectable characteristic, based on “purity” of ancestry. You know it when you see it.
A legal whiteness
B whiteness by inspection
C whiteness by decency
D reflexivity
(7) ________: whiteness is a personalized, social characteristic, based on membership in a “decent” family. You often know it when you see it, but it also greatly depends on contextual factors of wealth, social reputation, and education.
A legal whiteness
B whiteness by inspection
C whiteness by decency
D reflexivity
(8) _______: the social process of established whites increasingly accepting a racialized group as “white” (or “American”). Such groups included Jews, Germans, Irish, Italians, Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, Russians.
A white privilege
B reflexivitiy
C civic nationalism
D whitening
(9) _______: unearned social, economic, and political benefits accruing to whites but denied to nonwhites, especially blacks.
A white privilege
B reflexivity
C civic nationalism
D whitening
(10) whitening (two versions): (1) A social process of immigrant assimilation into an established white group. (2) A social process in which a _________group becomes ________by intermarrying with them.
A lighter-skinned; darker-skinned
B darker-skinned; lighter-skinned
C civic; ethnic
D ethnic; civic
