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