Race, Ethnicity and Power MCQs

Race, Ethnicity and Power MCQs

Answer these 10+ Race, Ethnicity and Power MCQs and assess your grip on the subject of Race, Ethnicity and Power.
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1: Expanding one nation into another geographic area through violent social control practices is called

A.   Socialism

B.   Colonialism

C.   Non - colonialism

D.   None of above

2: Colorblind Racism describes a dominant racial ideology that operates discreetly, with social actors who frequently mention “not seeing color” while advocating for maintaining White supremacist ideals in the form of structural inequalities such as mass incarceration, housing discrimination, and wealth inequality.

A.   True

B.   False

3: Pretending not to see racial differences is called

A.   Color Blindness

B.   Night Blindness

C.   Day Blindness

D.   None of above

4: _________ refers to the unequal treatment of people based on their race, ethnicity, and/or gender.

A.   Prejudice

B.   Descrimination

C.   Non difference

D.   Race

5: Shared cultural heritage including, but not limited to, a person’s birthplace or country of origin, familial ties and lineage, religion, language, and other social practices is called

A.   Race

B.   Ethnicity

C.   Power

D.   Ethnocentrism

6: Believing one’s own ethnic group is superior to others and assessing other groups’ ________, cultural practices, and other ethnic distinctions as inferior to yours is called Ethnocentrism.

A.   Religion

B.   Language

C.   Social

D.   Physical

7: A practice and concept that lets us see how social categories we belong to—such as class, gender, and race—are interconnected and work together to reinforce people’s advantages or disadvantages in society is called

A.   Race

B.   Ethnicity

C.   Power

D.   Intersectionality

8: _______ is the possession of authority over individuals, groups, or systems.

A.   Prejudice

B.   Power

C.   Race

D.   Ethnicity

9: The belief or feeling that one group is superior to another is called

A.   Prejudice

B.   Power

C.   Race

D.   Ethnicity

10: A system of organizing human beings into groups perceived to be distinct because of physical appearance (not genetic makeup) is called

A.   Prejudice

B.   Power

C.   Race

D.   Ethnicity

11: Racial microaggressions explain the harmful interpersonal statements or behaviors (usually by White people toward people of color), often unnoticeable to individuals not negatively impacted by them.

A.   True

B.   False

12: A system of lifelong forced servitude based on race and racial categories as a means of seeing and _______ human beings into groups is called Racial Salvery.

A.   Dividing

B.   Organizing

C.   Sending

D.   Avoiding

13: Historical, cultural, __________, and interpersonal dynamics that create and maintain a racial hierarchy that advantages Whites and hurts people of color is called Racism.

A.   Social

B.   Institutional

C.   Mental

D.   Physical

14: Refers to ideas created by human beings in their interactions with one another is called

A.   Anti-Socially Constructed

B.   Structural constructed

C.   Socially constructed

D.   Mentally constructed

A.   True

B.   False