Ch.7 White Privilege And The Changing U.S. + Full Test Bank

Chapter 7: White Privilege and the Changing U.S. Racial Hierarchy

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1) It is useful to look ________ at Whiteness in the same ways that we examine Blackness, Asian-ness, indigeneity, or latinidad.

a. intensely

b. critically

c. deeply

d. urgently

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2) White privilege refers to the _____________ inherent in being categorized as White?

a. challenges

b. racism

c. advantages

d. judgement

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3) Even though Jews faced discrimination during and after World War II, as Whites, they were able to reap the benefits of:

a. GI bills.

b. Federal Housing Administration mortgages.

c. Department of Veterans mortgages.

d. All of the above.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4) Peggy McIntosh created a tool to help understand the benefits of White privilege. It is called:

a. Unpacking the Knapsack of Privilege.

b. Unpacking White Benefits.

c. Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.

d. Unpacking the White Privilege Purse.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5) Just as Whiteness is linked to class, it is also defined by _______ and ________.

a. racism; prejudice

b. judgement; discrimination

c. money; power

d. gender; sexuality

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 06

6) In his study of American men married to _______women, Lundstrom found that American husband’s place tremendous value on their wives’ heritage.

a. Italian

b. Swedish

c. Asian

d. German

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 07

7) In the 2010 census, _____ percent of Hispanics identified their race as White:

a. 33%

b. 45%

c. 53%

d. 86%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 08

8) In the 2010 census, ______ percent of Hispanics identified as Black?

a. 2.5%

b. 7.2%

c. 10.1%

d. 32%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 09

9) In the 2010 census, 36.7% of Hispanics identified as ________.

a. multiracial.

b. two or more races.

c. other.

d. mixed.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 10

10) What racial category does not exist in the census?

a. Alaskan Native

b. Middle Eastern and North African

c. Native Hawaiian

d. Other Pacific Islander

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 11

11) Sociologist Salvador Vidal-Ortiz refers to White Puerto Ricans as a:

a. White person of color.

b. non-White Boricua.

c. non-White islanders.

d. BlancaRican.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 12

12) Researchers who surveyed Arab Americans in the Detroit area found that Arab Americans who were Christian identified as:

a. some other race.

b. Other.

c. White.

d. two or more races.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 13

13) What is a person whose parents identify with different racial groups called?

a. mixed-blooded

b. multiracial

c. mixed

d. biracial

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 14

14) What percentage of marriages in the United States involve persons of different races?

a. 6%

b. 13%

c. 19%

d. 27%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 15

15) In a survey of 38,000 incoming college freshmen, which of the following statistic of students who identify as multiracial is NOT real?

a. 70.7% of those with one Black parent and one White parent.

b. 36.9% of those with one Latinx parent and one White parent.

c. 53.5% of those with one Asian parent and one White parent.

d. 23.8% of those with one Native American parent and one White parent.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 16

16) The Brookings Institute issued a report predicting that Whites will no longer be the majority racial group in the United States by what year?

a. 2025

b. 2035

c. 2045

d. 2055

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 17

17) The first census was conducted in:

a. 1776

b. 1790

c. 1840

d. 1880

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 18

18) The only time the same racial categories were used for consecutive censuses were in:

a. 1790 and 1800.

b. 1860 and 1870.

c. 1910 and 1920.

d. 1990 and 2000.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 19

19) Ethnicity is defined as group identities based on notions of similar and shared categories. Which category is NOT included in the definition?

a. history

b. language

c. culture

d. kinship

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 20

20) The process through which immigrants adopt the racial identities of their host country is called:

a. Americanization.

b. Racialized acculturation.

c. Assimilation.

d. Racialized assimilation.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1) What is an example of White privilege?

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2) What does it mean that Whiteness is an unmarked identity?

Page reference: White Privilege

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3) All Whites do not experience White privilege in the say way. Please give an example of this statement.

Page reference: Whiteness, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4) How are racial boundaries constantly in flux?

Page reference: Whiteness and Racial Categories in Twenty-First-Century America

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5) Do all Latinos who describe themselves as “White” have very light skin?

Page reference: Latinos/as in the Multiracial Hierarchy

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 06

6) What are the “racial loopholes” Iranians experience according to Neda Maghbouleh?

Page reference: Research Focus: The Limits of Whiteness

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 07

7) Does everyone with ancestry from more than one racial group adopt the label of multiracial?

Page reference: Multiracial Identification and the U.S. Racial Hierarchy

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 08

8) Why were there so many racial classifications in the census?

Page reference: History of Racial and Ethnic Classifications

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 09

9) Are Filipinos Latinos?

Page reference: Revisiting the Definitions of Race and Ethnicity

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 10

10) Why are many scholars concerned about Hispanic becoming a racial category?

Page reference: Are Latinos a Race or Ethnicity?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 01

1) In the opening story, Kevin Johnson, talks about his mixed heritage as the son of a Mexican American mother and an Anglo father. What were some of the challenges he faced?

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 02

2) Why do poor Whites have a hard time seeing their White privilege?

Page reference: Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 03

3) What does it mean that Arab Americans are White without the privilege?

Page reference: The Limits of Whiteness

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 04

4) What are examples of social, cultural, and intergenerational whitening in Latin America?

Page reference: Global View: Social, Cultural, and Intergenerational Whitening in Latin America

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 07 Question 05

5) Are Latinos a Race or Ethnicity?

Page reference: Changes in Racial and Ethnic Classifications