Racism and Racial Inequalities MCQs
Racism and Racial Inequalities MCQs
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1: The assertion that race no longer matters and that any persisting racial inequalities are best explained by individual efforts or imagined cultural traits is called Color-blind racism
A. True
B. False
2: Intensely familiar racial stereotypes reinforced by media representations and political discourse, which influence public policy and perpetuate racial inequality is called
A. Controlling images
B. Non Controlling images
C. Colorful images
D. None of above
3: African Americans’ dual awareness of who they know themselves to be and how others see them according to racial stereotypes and expectations is called
A. Double consciousness
B. Single consciousness
C. Single Non-consciousness
D. Double Non-consciousness
4: Material resources, including income, property, and wealth is called Economic capital
A. True
B. False
5: A cultural category marking shared traditions and communities, which may be based on religion, national origin, or other cultural practices is called Ethnicity
A. True
B. False
6: Gentrification is a process that occurs when wealthier (and therefore often whiter) people buy dilapidated homes in _________, thereby pushing out working class and poor communities (usually of color)
A. Poor communities
B. Rich communities
C. Average communities
D. None of above
7: Laws established by former Confederate states that effectively guaranteed second-class citizenship for people of color, limiting the citizenship rights and emancipation that the 14th Amendment had provided is called Jim Crow Laws
A. 14th Amendment
B. 15th Amendment
C. 16th Amendment
D. None of above
8: Common, seemingly innocent statements or questions that reflect racial biases and perceptions about a group’s intelligence and worth is called
A. Microaggressions
B. Macroaggressions
C. Both of above
D. None of these
9: Individual biases and ______ that attribute characteristics to a group of people so that we prejudge group members is called Prejudice
A. Belief systems
B. Culture systems
C. Non Culture systems
D. Traditio systems
10: A category of identity that is determined by the society that surrounds it; in the United States is called
A. Color
B. Caste
C. Race
D. Culture
11: The differential treatment of people based on their race is known as
A. Racial discrimination
B. Racial privilege
C. Racial profiling
D. Racialization
12: Unearned advantages based on race is called
A. Racial discrimination
B. Racial privilege
C. Racial profiling
D. Racialization
13: ___________ is using race to screen for problematic individual behaviors
A. Racial discrimination
B. Racial privilege
C. Racial profiling
D. Racialization
14: _________ is the process of assigning people a race, along with the personality, behavioral, and social characteristics associated with that race, based on physical or cultural cues
A. Racial discrimination
B. Racial privilege
C. Racial profiling
D. Racialization
15: A system of advantage and disadvantage based on race; these advantages and disadvantages exist because of institutional, historical, ideological, economic, and political forces is called
A. Racism
B. Racial privilege
C. Racial profiling
D. Racialization
16: Policies that made the racial composition of a neighborhood a central variable in determining its value and therefore determining the eligibility for mortgage loans in those areas is called
A. Red lining
B. White lining
C. Black lining
D. Grey lining
17: Collective actions meant to influence social change is known as
A. Social movements
B. Non social movements
C. Collective movements
D. None of above
18: Voter suppression is Efforts to limit the voting potential of a given population through indirect measures
A. True
B. False
19: When White families move after people of color move into their neighborhood, for fear of living by black and brown people or that their homes will lose much of their value when the neighborhood becomes racially integrated is called
A. White flight
B. Black flight
C. Grey flight
D. None of above
20: Race is considered a ______ rather than a biological reality.
A. Ideology
B. Social construct
C. Psychological understanding
D. Constant
21: ______ is the process of assigning people a race, along with the personality, behavioral and social characteristics associated with that race.
A. Stigmatization
B. Idealization
C. Racialization
D. Ethnocentrism
22: ______ coined the term double consciousness.
A. Margaret Mead
B. C. Wright Mills
C. Karl Marx
D. W.E.B. Du Bois
23: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are considered social agents?
A. Parents
B. Educators
C. Peers
D. People in a crowd
24: ______ constitutes individual biases and belief systems that attribute characteristics to a group of people so that we prejudge group members.
A. Racialization
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Prejudice
D. Discrimination
25: ______ is a system of advantages and disadvantages based on race.
A. Racism
B. Credentialism
C. Ethnocentrism
D. Socialization
26: Historically, racial categories were enforced to give which of the following groups social and economic advantages?
A. Native Americans
B. Asians
C. African Americans
D. Whites
27: What year did the U.S. federal government make racial restrictions on immigrants illegal?
A. 1924
B. 1982
C. 1952
D. 1964
28: ______ in the late 1800s and early 1900s restricted agricultural land ownership to citizens on the West Coast.
A. Alien and Sedition Acts
B. Homestead Acts
C. Alien Land Acts
D. Native Land Acts
29: ______ made African Americans second-class citizens, which ultimately limited their rights.
A. Jim Crow Laws
B. Southern Laws
C. The 14th Amendment
D. The Civil War Amendment
30: ______ is known as the policies created by the Federal Housing Agency in the 1930s which used race to determine the value of a neighborhood.
A. Redzoning
B. Redistricting
C. Urban segregation
D. Redlining
31: SELECT ALL THAT APPY. ______ and ______ are two social institutions that continue to perpetuate racism due to their structural inequality.
A. School
B. Religion
C. Criminal Justice System
D. Employment Agencies
32: People in America have the same opportunities, regardless of race.
A. True
B. False
33: Access to voting is restricted from those who are convicted of a felony.
A. True
B. False
34: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Which of the following are ways in which racism can be challenged?
A. Education
B. Social movements
C. Segregation
D. Participating in political processes
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