The 1875 Page Law, which intended to bar Chinese prostitutes to the United States, had what effect?

The church served as the institutional hub of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed the antimiscegenation laws in southern states.

The Selma-to-Montgomery march was the famous march in which activists walked along a stretch of land in which no black people were registered to vote.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited voter discrimination, outlawed literacy tests, and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registration.

The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island, in which protestors demanded the island be released for the explicit development of Indian education, lasted how long?

Which of the following racial-ethnic groups is most likely to vote Republican?

Out of all racial groups, African Americans prospered the most following World War II.

The New Deal allowed people of color greater access to mortgage loans and desegregated neighborhoods, which in turrn provided opportunities for them to build household wealth.

Between 1984 and 2009, the wealth gap between white and black families nearly tripled.

As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the 1980 Refugee Act, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants were no longer permitted entry to the United States.

A national homebuilder developing a new home community needs to hire farmers, plumbers, painters, electricians, and other construction workers. There are plenty of qualififed, unionized, nonimmigrant job applicants, but the builder chooses to hire mostly Mexican immigrants. According to sociologist Edna Bonacich, this choice reflects the existence of:

What was the name of the policy put forward by President Bill Clinton that placed restrictions on how long families could receive welfare?

__________ women are more likely to return to welfare than white women for many reasons, including the fact that ________________________________________.

Little Italy in New York City, where a number of Italian Americans have lived and owned businesses for generations, is an example of what?

African Americans in many metropolitan areas live in a condition of hypersegregation.

Some factors that contributed to the Great Migration were job shortages in the South due to a decline in the price of cotton and job vacanies in the North due to a decrease in European immigration.

Eviction has been linked to job loss, depression, residential instability, and relocating to poorer, more violent neighborhoods and is twice as likely to happen to women as men.

A banker that refused to give financially qualified buyers a mortgage because their desired home was in a nonwhite area marked as too risky for a loan is an example of redlining.

What two factors contribute to many black and Latino families facing the burden of rising housing costs?

According to Massey and Denton, how did the "hyperghetto" form?

Similar to poor blacks living in urban ghettos, poor whites living in rural tariler parks often suffer from what?

What is the one consequence of environmental racism?

What is the social force driving the transformation of the racial makeup of many majority-white small towns?

Almost half of all new immigrants since the 1990s have settled in integrated urban neighborhoods.

Race is a ______________________ category that is misrecognized as a ___________________ category.

The current _____________________ in the United States delineates five major groups.

A person's ____________________ is his or her physical appearance, including skeletal structure, height, hair texture, eye color, and skin tone.

A person's ____________________ is his or her family lineage, which often includes tribal, regional, or national affiliation.

Racial categories are bound to their specific social and _______________ contexts, meaning that such boundaries are not the same in India as in South America.

George's father is an African American, and his mother is white American. Mike's father is a white Italian, and his mother is a white American. Why does Mike have a higher degree of fluidity and freedom when self-identifying ethnically?

The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, with its imposition of national quotas and racial restrictions, contributed to the U.S. racial order by:

While blacks were granted the right of citizenship in 1870 as part of the Reconstruction Amendments after the Civil War, other nonwhites were denied citizenship until:

The authors of the textbook invite you to understand race and ethnicity through a sociological lens. C. Wright Mills coined the term " _______________________," which means understanding and interpreting everyday life not only though one's own personal experience but also through the exploration of __________ that structure and direct our social world.

Two friends are arguing over the results of a recent NBA draft. Alex tells Jorge that his favorite team should have picked more black players because they naturally have more athletic skill and everyone knows "white men can't jump." Jorge calls Alex out for basing his argument on:

From 1600 to 1900, appoximately 75 percent of America's indigenous peopls died as a direct result of European colonization.

The 1676 Bacon's Rebellion immediately preceded the Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery.

The term "Jim Crow" originated fromCongressman James Crow, who implemented a series of laws regulating the segregation of blacks and whites.

Author Michelle Alexander recently coined the term "the new Jim Crow" to discuss the rapid rise of mass incarceration among the black population in the United States.

How did the United States acquire the land that today is New Mexico, Caliifornia, Utah, Nevada, parts of Arizona, and disputed areas of Texas?

Which event effectively ended the 350-year-old Indian Wars?

From the end of the nineteenth century to the 1970s, thousands of Native Americans and African Americans, as well as people deemed mentally retarded or criminal, were sterilized against their will. This phenomenon was an example of what?

For the Native Americans, the process of white colonialism brought inflictions on their bodies, their spirits, and their lands. What is one example given in the textbook of how Native Americans experienced violence "on their spirits"?

The tendency of schools and universities to teach students about the accomplishments of white Americans and ignore those of people of color is an example of?

Which of the following racial groups has/have the highest rate of poverty in the United States?

Someone who believes that Barack Obama's election signifies the end of racism in America is operating under which fallacy about racism?

Ethnicity is a fixed category that does not change based on the social and historical context.

A person who understands racism as simply the personal prejudices of "racist" people is operating under which fallacy about racism?

From 1600 to 1900, over _______ of America's indigenous peoples died as a direct result of European colonization.

The ratification of the _______________ Amendment extended citizenship rights to blacks.

Who were the first Europeans to colonize the Americas?

_______________ occurs when a forreign power invades a territory and establishes enduring systems of exploitation and domination over that territory's indigenous populations.

Contemporary welfare programs tend to focus on changing individual behavior - teaching clients to be more responsible, productive workers - rather than on addressing systematic inequality. In what tradition do such programs follow?

Who has attempted to secure political advantage through gerrymandering?

Assuming that President Barack Obama would advocate exclusively for the interests of people of color simply because he is a person of color is an example of the tokenistic fallacy.

What is an "ethnic enclave"?

While numerous groups such as Black Girls have tried to encourage women of color to enter industries traditionally dominated by white males, such women continue to be underrepresented in top levels of employment in these industries. What term do sociologists use to describe this phenomenon?

Following World War II, suburban America exploded due in large part to homebuilding funded by the Taft-Harley Act.

Why are Native American reservations often the target of environmental racism, such as locations for dump sites and mining operations?

What is one way the Federal Housing Administration contributed to the eclusion of nonwhites from the private housing market?

Which of the following life experiences has been linked to job loss, depression, residential instability, and relocating to poorer, more violent neighborhoods and is twice as likely to happen to women as men?

The U.S. government program that ran from 1942 through 1964 to recruit Mexican nationals and has been referred to as "legalized slavery" was called the Colonias Program.

What is one thing that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed?

The English encouraged intermarriage between the colonizers and indigenous women, a practice they thought would help stabilize the region.

Cesar Chavez, one of the most important Mexican American activists, led the 11965 Delano grape strike. What was the purpose of this action?