ASAM 101 Exam Questions and Correct
Answers
What term describes when you are seen as having a race?
Racialized
Is not hiring a person for a job due to race, gender, or ability status an example of
discrimination?
True
What best describes the relationship between empire, colonialism, and imperialism?
Imperialism acts as the ideology behind empire building and colonialism.
Is gender a cultural notion of what it means to be a man or a woman?
True
What are examples of social identity categories?
Gender, race, class
Did social elites of early America manufacture racial divisions?
True
What is the strongest definition of an ideology?
Framework we use in viewing or making sense of the world.
Which war impacted most of the events studied this semester?
The Vietnam War
, Did immigration policies in the U.S. throughout history uphold racism, sexism, and
classism?
True
What process describes the racialization of native peoples as subhuman?
Colonialism
What best describes ableism?
Prejudice or discrimination against those with disabilities.
What was the first major immigration legislation aimed at a group identified by race?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Did the ex parte Endo case (1944) rule that the U.S. government could not continue to
detain loyal U.S. citizens?
True
What are examples of social identities?
Race, gender, and class.
What concept highlights the advantages that certain individuals or groups have due to
factors like race or gender?
Privileges
What is not a factor that influenced U.S. colonization in the Pacific Islands?
The islanders wanted to be colonized.
Did anti-miscegenation laws prohibit interracial relationships?
Answers
What term describes when you are seen as having a race?
Racialized
Is not hiring a person for a job due to race, gender, or ability status an example of
discrimination?
True
What best describes the relationship between empire, colonialism, and imperialism?
Imperialism acts as the ideology behind empire building and colonialism.
Is gender a cultural notion of what it means to be a man or a woman?
True
What are examples of social identity categories?
Gender, race, class
Did social elites of early America manufacture racial divisions?
True
What is the strongest definition of an ideology?
Framework we use in viewing or making sense of the world.
Which war impacted most of the events studied this semester?
The Vietnam War
, Did immigration policies in the U.S. throughout history uphold racism, sexism, and
classism?
True
What process describes the racialization of native peoples as subhuman?
Colonialism
What best describes ableism?
Prejudice or discrimination against those with disabilities.
What was the first major immigration legislation aimed at a group identified by race?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Did the ex parte Endo case (1944) rule that the U.S. government could not continue to
detain loyal U.S. citizens?
True
What are examples of social identities?
Race, gender, and class.
What concept highlights the advantages that certain individuals or groups have due to
factors like race or gender?
Privileges
What is not a factor that influenced U.S. colonization in the Pacific Islands?
The islanders wanted to be colonized.
Did anti-miscegenation laws prohibit interracial relationships?
