SOC 308 Week 2 Quiz Answers
1.
Question :
Black genealogy or family history
Student Answer:
has been well-documented in many cases, because careful records were kept of black slaves.
is largely unknown, because slaves were not permitted to legally marry in most cases.
has been invented in fictional products, such as the book and movie, Roots.
is of little interest, because most scholars believe that the past is not part of current U.S. identities.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 5 of Race and Ethnicity.
2.
Question :
After overt legal segregation ended, de facto segregation has been most evident and widely persistent in
Student Answer:
American work places.
American schools.
American housing patterns.
American political offices.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 5 of Race and Ethnicity.
3.
Question :
As an ethnonationality, Mexican Americans have in recent decades been politically active
2. Black genealogy or family history
Student Answer:
has been well-documented in many cases, because careful records were kept of
black slaves.
is largely unknown, because slaves were not permitted to legally marry in most
cases.
has been invented in fictional products, such as the book and movie, Roots.
is of little interest, because most scholars believe that the past is not part of
current U.S. identities.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 5 of Race and Ethnicity.
2.
Question :
After overt legal segregation ended, de facto segregation has been most evident
and widely persistent in
Student Answer:
American work places.
American schools.
American housing patterns.
American political offices.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 5 of Race and Ethnicity.
3. 3.
Question :
As an ethnonationality, Mexican Americans have in recent decades been politically
active in
Student Answer:
securing school integration and rights for migrant farm workers.
supporting the political aspirations of Mexico.
combating stereotypes of Mexican-Americans as maids and gardeners.
successfully opposing the harassment of undocumented immigrants through the
judicial system.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 6 of Race and Ethnicity.
4.
Question :
Chinese American enclaves, known as Chinatowns,
Student Answer:
have recently been resurrected in suburbs, while those in inner cities attract
tourists.
were chosen by nineteenth century Chinese immigrants, as a profitable way to live
through commerce instead of making their livings as land owners and farmers.
unlike other enclaves have been the sites of only minimal community assistance
organizations.
4. are no longer the destination of the poorest new immigrants.
Instructor
The answer can be found in Chapter 7 of Race and Ethnicity.
5.
Question :
The construction of gambling casinos on Indian reservations
Student Answer:
has further increased rates of alcoholism and poverty as Native Americans have
lost tribal money in gambling.
is uniformly supported by most Native American groups who have succeeded in
constructing casinos and making them highly profitable.
is uniformly opposed by most Native American groups who believe that casinos
contradict their traditional ways of life in natural environments.
has caused dissent within Indian-American communities and resulted in enough
money for some tribes to buy back ancestral lands.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 8 of Race and Ethnicity.
6.
Question :
Sociologists France Winddance Twine and Charles Gallaher have argued that
Student Answer:
after the success of the civil rights movement, there is no evidence that Whites
exclude non-Whites from recreational activities, particularly on the Internet.
5. both racially progressive Whites and White supremacists are able to cooperate
because of a shared White identity.
Whites are reluctant to recruit Hispanics and Latinos to the White group through
intermarriage, because they want to keep White identity exclusive.
there is no evidence that Whites are drawn to biographies of White people, music
performed by Whites, or contexts in which both speakers and their audiences are
White.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 9 of Race and Ethnicity.
7.
Question :
During the housing bust and recession that began in 2007, family assets in
Hispanic families
Student Answer:
increased, because some groups had shrewdly bought real estate at the bottom
and sold it at the top, especially income property.
remained flat, despite slightly higher unemployment than other immigrant groups.
saw the greatest drop of any ethnic or racial group in the United States.
were often liquidated at a profit and sent back to countries of origin in the form of
cash.
Instructor
The answer can be found in Chapter 6 of Race and Ethnicity.
8.
6. Question :
The U.S. Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in Brown v. the Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas was that
Student Answer:
separate but equal was not acceptable because it was too difficult to make
educational facilities equal in quality.
segregated education violated the 14th amendment.
segregated education was unconstitutional because it violated the 13th
amendment.
segregated education had to be abolished because African Americans had
become too large a minority in numerical terms.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 5 of Race and Ethnicity.
9.
Question :
Mexican Americans have a long history intertwined with the United States, which
does not include
Student Answer:
late 20th century hostilities between Mexico and the United
States
ownership by Mexico of large parts of the Southwest until the mid-nineteenth
century.
a legal Mexican-American population of over 11 million and several hundred
thousand undocumented immigrants added each year.
7. the tendency of Mexican-American immigrants to remain in the United States even
during severe economic downturns.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 6 of Race and Ethnicity.
10.
Question :
Vietnamese immigration
Student Answer:
has a long tradition in U.S. history, beginning in colonial fishing industries.
has had two waves after the fall of Saigon, the first of military-associated
personnel and the second mainly of poor rural immigrants.
is noteworthy for the rapid assimilation of recent, highly skilled arrivals.
has overall been most similar to Korean immigration, of all other Asian- American
groups.
Instructor Explanation:
The answer can be found in Chapter 7 of Race and Ethnicity.
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