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More than half of the More than half of the African-born population living in the United States, as cited in "New African Immigrants," are less than 45 years old.

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True

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According to "New African Immigrants," recent African immigrants are most likely to live:

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in dispersed suburban locations

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More than half of the recent African immigrants, as identified in "New African Immigrants," have settled in just seven states, including all of the following except:

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Nevada

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According to "New African Immigrants," once the African born arrive in the United States, they are comforted by the fact that they are identified by the broad category of Black or African American

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False

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Which of the following would be classified as primarily an ethnic minority group?

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Jewish Americans

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Ideological discrimination is the societal equivalent to individual discrimination.

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Flase

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You work at the local bank as a loan processor. Although you believe that whites and African Americans should be treated equally, your boss demands that you turn down any loans requested by African Americans. According to your text, you are a(n):

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Unprejudiced discriminator

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In the United States, minority group status has been and continues to be one of the most important determinants of life chances, health, wealth, and success.

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True

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Over the past three decades, the number of immigrants arriving in the United States each year has significantly increased.

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True

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The United States is often referred to as a(n):

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Postindustrial society

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The relative advantage of the dominant group is maintained day to day by widespread institutional discrimination.

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True

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In Western Europe, scientific and philosophical interest in the concept of race began:

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During the age of European conquest and colonization of nonwhites

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Stratification is an important concept in the study of minority groups because

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Minority groups are often created by struggles over control of valued goods and services

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The two groups projected to increase dramatically in the United States over the next half century are:

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Asian and Pacific Islanders and Hispanic Americans

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As reported in Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, the only nationality ever excluded by name from U.S. citizenship was the:

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Chinese

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According to Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, Native Americans acquired citizenship by birth since they were indigenous to the United States.

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False

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According to Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, the Constitution of the United States did not originally define "citizenry."

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True

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As explained in Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, none of the people returned to Mexico during the Depression had yet become U.S. citizens.

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False

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As noted in Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, under the rule of jus soli, citizenship in a nation is granted to:

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All of the below: the dominant race in the nation. people whose parents are citizens. people who are willing to renounce citizenship in another nation.

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According to Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship, the racial composition of the United States has been influenced mainly by:

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the design of U.S. immigration and naturalization laws.

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Milton Gordon suggests that there are eight major subprocesses of assimilation

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False

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During cultural assimilation (or acculturation), members of the minority groups coming to the United States might adopt the English language, change their eating habits, acquire new value systems, or change their names

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True

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The dominant group always seeks the goal of assimilation for minority groups.

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False

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Pluralism exists when:

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Groups remain separate, and their cultural and social differences persist over time

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The Amish (sometimes called the Pennsylvania Dutch) are committed to a way of life organized around farming. They maintain a culture and an institutional life that is separate from the dominant culture. The kind of pluralism that best describes them is:

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Cultural pluralism

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A good example of structural pluralism would be ______.

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Christian churches on Sunday morning

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In Milton Gordon's Stages of Assimilation, what phase immediately precedes marital assimilation?

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Primary structural integration

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A "middleman minority" establishes its own neighborhood and relies on a set of interconnected businesses for its economic survival

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False

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The United States can best be described as a "melting pot" of people of different cultures coming together to create a unique society.

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False

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In Milton Gordon's theory of assimilation, the crucial step is from

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Acculturation to integration

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Selective perception is the tendency to see minorities generally in negative light.

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False

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Stereotypes vary by:

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Race, Gender and Class

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Selective perception

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Is a tendency to see beyond one's own observations

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Research using social distance scales demonstrates that prejudice exists apart from individuals and that it is passed from generation to generation.

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True

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Children as young as 5 to 6 months are capable of distinguishing some aspects of gender and race between categories of people

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True

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When looking at gender stereotypes for females at Arizona University, students attributed the same characteristics for both European American and African American women.

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False

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Stereotypes are central to the affective dimension of prejudice.

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False

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Which of the following is not an example of the affective dimension of prejudice?

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Stereotyping and overgeneralizations

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The English language may contribute to racist stereotypes because of the use of terms such as black-hearted, black list, or black eye.

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True

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Your book details Americans' social distance scores from 1926 to 2001. Which of the following was not found in that research?

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Racial minorities such as African Americans ranked above groups with origins in northern and western Europe

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