Race and Racism
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According to the chapter, what percentage of Confederate monuments were erected between 1898 and 1922?
View answer and explanationHow do anthropologists define race?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary reason biological anthropologists argue that no clear and absolute genetic lines can separate people into distinct racial populations?
View answer and explanationWhat term do biological anthropologists use to describe the continuum of human variation that changes gradually over geographic space?
View answer and explanationWhat is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
View answer and explanationThe chapter uses the example of earwax to demonstrate what key point about the construction of race?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary legacy of colonialism in relation to contemporary global expressions of race?
View answer and explanationIn the Dominican Republic, how does social class status affect racial classification?
View answer and explanationWhat is the 'one drop of blood rule' also known as?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of the 1854 California court case People v. Hall?
View answer and explanationWhat is the concept of 'whiteness' as a culturally constructed category?
View answer and explanationAccording to Pem Buck's research in 'Worked to the Bone,' why were legal privileges for 'whites' invented in early 1700s Virginia?
View answer and explanationWhat does the term 'racialization' refer to?
View answer and explanationHow did the 1965 U.S. immigration laws impact the racial category of 'Asian American'?
View answer and explanationWhat are microaggressions?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary difference between individual racism and institutional racism?
View answer and explanationWhat is a 'racial ideology'?
View answer and explanationAccording to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, how might a 'color-blind' ideology perpetuate racial inequality?
View answer and explanationWhat is the concept of intersectionality used to analyze?
View answer and explanationIn his study of Corona, Queens, what did anthropologist Steven Gregory find about the community's response to racial discrimination?
View answer and explanationWhat was the initial number of racial categories in the U.S. Census of 1790, which counted slaves as only three-fifths of a person?
View answer and explanationIn what year did the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education declare state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional?
View answer and explanationWhat is the anthropological definition of 'colonialism' provided in the chapter?
View answer and explanationHow many racial categories were available for selection on the 1940 U.S. census form?
View answer and explanationWhat is 'white supremacy'?
View answer and explanationIn her study of a poor white community in Florida, what process did anthropologist Jane Gibson explore?
View answer and explanationIn the case of Susie Phipps, a 1970 Louisiana law mandated a person be designated as black if their ancestry was at least what fraction black?
View answer and explanationWhat term refers to laws implemented after the U.S. Civil War to enforce legal segregation, particularly in the South?
View answer and explanationHow many racial categories were added to the 1870 U.S. Census compared to the 1850 census?
View answer and explanationIn Donna Goldstein's study 'Laughter Out of Place,' what historical institution is linked to the contemporary culture of domestic work in Brazil?
View answer and explanationHow much of human DNA is shared among all humans, indicating a high level of genetic similarity?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following is NOT a racial category used in the Dominican Republic, according to the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary argument of Karen Brodkin's book 'How the Jews Became White Folks'?
View answer and explanationIn the Malaysian racial system constructed by the British, which group was NOT one of the three distinct categories?
View answer and explanationWhat is the central argument of Peggy McIntosh's article 'White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack'?
View answer and explanationWhich of the following did the 2010 U.S. Census form allow respondents to do for the first time on a large scale?
View answer and explanationWhat does the term 'nativism' describe?
View answer and explanationIn the racial hierarchy of Brazil, what is a unique characteristic of its system of classification?
View answer and explanationThe chapter discusses a study of fourth graders in Brooklyn after September 11, 2001. What new racial category did the children appear to be creating?
View answer and explanationDuring which period of U.S. history did the ideology of Jim Crow enforce legal segregation?
View answer and explanationWhat percentage of the population did people of African descent constitute in Dutch New Amsterdam (now New York City) as early as 1640?
View answer and explanationIn Brazil, what term is used for a person who is 'dirty white'?
View answer and explanationWhat did the U.S. Census count slaves as from 1790 to 1860, reflecting the ideology of white supremacy?
View answer and explanationThe chapter highlights that the majority of Malaysians belong to the Malay ethnic group, who constitute what percentage of the population?
View answer and explanationWhich of these is an example of a racial microaggression mentioned in the chapter?
View answer and explanationBetween 1870 and the 1940s in the U.S. South, what became a widespread means to intimidate blacks and enforce the racial order?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, which group of immigrants was NOT initially received as 'white' in the United States?
View answer and explanationWhat does the case of the 'Minah Karan' in Malaysia illustrate?
View answer and explanationWhen did the term 'white' first appear in a public document in Virginia to refer to a separate race?
View answer and explanationWhat is the primary danger of assuming that phenotypical traits like skin color are linked to genotype?
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