HUM 3321 Final Exam 2026
Exam Questions and Answers |
Already Graded A+
Microassault - ANSWER ✔✔most similar to old-fashioned racism,
most likely to be conscious and diliberate, but typically expressed in
private situations
EX: Name-calling, avoidant behavior, racial epithets, serving a white
patron before a minority
,Microinsult - ANSWER ✔✔communication that conveys rudeness
and insensitivity that demeans a person's racial heritage; subtle and
often unknown to the perpetrator
EX: "I believe the best person should get the job, regardless of color
Microinvalidation - ANSWER ✔✔Nullifies or negates the feelings or
reality of a minority
EX: Complimenting a Hispanic-looking person for speaking English or
saying "I don't see color"
Racial Microaggressions - ANSWER ✔✔beliefs and commonplace
daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indiginities, whether intentional
or unitentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial
slights and insults toward people of color
The invisible nature of aversive racism prevents perpetrators from
realizing - ANSWER ✔✔a. their own complicity in creating
psychological dilemmas for minorities
b. their role in creating disparities in employment, health care, and
education
Microaggressions tend to be - ANSWER ✔✔subtle, indirect and
unintentional, mostly likely to emerge not when a behavior would look
, preudicial, but when other rationales can be offered for prejudicial
behavior, and occur when White pretend not to notice differences,
thereby justifying that color was not involved in the actions taken
Aversive Racism - ANSWER ✔✔egalitarian values are conscious, but
anti-minority sentiments still operate subconsciously
Modern and Symbolic Racism - ANSWER ✔✔somewhat more
prejudiced, focusing publically on statements about individualism, self-
reliance, hard work, etc
Merit - ANSWER ✔✔things they can control such as innate abilities,
working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character
and integrity
Two principle arguments in McNamee - ANSWER ✔✔1. We suggest
that while merit does indeed affect who ends up with what, the impact of
merit on economic outcomes is vastly overestimated by the ideology of
the American Dream
2. There are a variety of non-merit facts that can suppress, neutralize, or
even negate the effects of merit na create barriers to individual mobility
Income - ANSWER ✔✔how much one earns; sources of this are both
work-related and non-work related
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3
Exam Questions and Answers |
Already Graded A+
Microassault - ANSWER ✔✔most similar to old-fashioned racism,
most likely to be conscious and diliberate, but typically expressed in
private situations
EX: Name-calling, avoidant behavior, racial epithets, serving a white
patron before a minority
,Microinsult - ANSWER ✔✔communication that conveys rudeness
and insensitivity that demeans a person's racial heritage; subtle and
often unknown to the perpetrator
EX: "I believe the best person should get the job, regardless of color
Microinvalidation - ANSWER ✔✔Nullifies or negates the feelings or
reality of a minority
EX: Complimenting a Hispanic-looking person for speaking English or
saying "I don't see color"
Racial Microaggressions - ANSWER ✔✔beliefs and commonplace
daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indiginities, whether intentional
or unitentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial
slights and insults toward people of color
The invisible nature of aversive racism prevents perpetrators from
realizing - ANSWER ✔✔a. their own complicity in creating
psychological dilemmas for minorities
b. their role in creating disparities in employment, health care, and
education
Microaggressions tend to be - ANSWER ✔✔subtle, indirect and
unintentional, mostly likely to emerge not when a behavior would look
, preudicial, but when other rationales can be offered for prejudicial
behavior, and occur when White pretend not to notice differences,
thereby justifying that color was not involved in the actions taken
Aversive Racism - ANSWER ✔✔egalitarian values are conscious, but
anti-minority sentiments still operate subconsciously
Modern and Symbolic Racism - ANSWER ✔✔somewhat more
prejudiced, focusing publically on statements about individualism, self-
reliance, hard work, etc
Merit - ANSWER ✔✔things they can control such as innate abilities,
working hard, having the right attitude, and having high moral character
and integrity
Two principle arguments in McNamee - ANSWER ✔✔1. We suggest
that while merit does indeed affect who ends up with what, the impact of
merit on economic outcomes is vastly overestimated by the ideology of
the American Dream
2. There are a variety of non-merit facts that can suppress, neutralize, or
even negate the effects of merit na create barriers to individual mobility
Income - ANSWER ✔✔how much one earns; sources of this are both
work-related and non-work related
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3
