ASAM 101 Quiz 1 and Correct Answers
Ethnic Studies was created solely by African American
False
Ethnic Studies began at UC Berkeley when students there went on strike.
False
The Ethnic studies strike succeeded because European Americans, who were the
majority, agreed with it
True
European Americans were not involved in the founding of Ethnic Studies
True
Asian Americans, although they are included in Ethnic Studies, did not fight for it
False
The goals of the strikers for Ethnic Studies were to increase the numbers of racial
minority students, to have classes taught in Ethnic Studies, and to hire instructors to
teach those courses
True
CSUF is a good university, but because it has been led by a minority person, it is not
and cannot be excellent
False
Ethnic Studies is not a required subject at CSUF
, False
It is inherently divisive to study race and ethnicity
False
It is impossible to raise racial minorities up unless European Americans are degraded
False
Race is defined by DNA, and biologists have proved this
False
Race is fixed, unchanging, and independent of time or people
False
Racial Formations are the socio-historical processes by which racial identities are
created, lived out, transformed, and destroyed
True
Social Construction is the idea that people make it up, and therefore no social
construction has any importance
False
Rankings of races are social constructions and so they have not and do not matter
False
People who look similar always have much more DNA in common than people of racial
groups that are different from them
False
Ethnic Studies was created solely by African American
False
Ethnic Studies began at UC Berkeley when students there went on strike.
False
The Ethnic studies strike succeeded because European Americans, who were the
majority, agreed with it
True
European Americans were not involved in the founding of Ethnic Studies
True
Asian Americans, although they are included in Ethnic Studies, did not fight for it
False
The goals of the strikers for Ethnic Studies were to increase the numbers of racial
minority students, to have classes taught in Ethnic Studies, and to hire instructors to
teach those courses
True
CSUF is a good university, but because it has been led by a minority person, it is not
and cannot be excellent
False
Ethnic Studies is not a required subject at CSUF
, False
It is inherently divisive to study race and ethnicity
False
It is impossible to raise racial minorities up unless European Americans are degraded
False
Race is defined by DNA, and biologists have proved this
False
Race is fixed, unchanging, and independent of time or people
False
Racial Formations are the socio-historical processes by which racial identities are
created, lived out, transformed, and destroyed
True
Social Construction is the idea that people make it up, and therefore no social
construction has any importance
False
Rankings of races are social constructions and so they have not and do not matter
False
People who look similar always have much more DNA in common than people of racial
groups that are different from them
False
