CES 101 exam 1 QUESTIONS With Complete Solutions

mrs. phipps correct answer: Lived in Louisiana, appeared white. Wanted a passport, figured out birth certificate listed her as colored. ; found to be genetically black and therefore legally black even though she identified as white Extinction thesis correct answer: His thesis was that according to current death rates African Americans would eventually go extinct. The problem was that he ignored the effects of poverty and other health problems among African Americans. 1790 naturalization act correct answer: did not regulate entry to the country, instead, it stated that only free white persons who had lived in the United State for at least two years were eligible for citizenship 1 drop rule correct answer: This rule established the basis of American race theory (ideas about race); any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan African ancestry is considered black Eugenics correct answer: the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. win tribe correct answer: This group lived in Blue Hills of Virginia and were seen as the Worst combination of all racial traits- White Indian Negro Ancestory Racism correct answer: a prejudice against someone based on race, when those prejudices are reinforced by systems of power Homer Plessy correct answer: He challenges segregation by asserting that he was not black (only 1/8) colorblindness correct answer: supposedly not seeing race colorblind racism correct answer: racial ideology that explains racial inequality as the outcome of nonracial dynamics, such as market dynamics and non whites supposed cultural limitations Prejudice correct answer: assumption about a group- attitudes, thoughts, bigotry, bias... pre-judgement, stereotyping, belief in superiority Discrimination correct answer: acting upon that prejudice, behavioral, penalizing a particular person because of a particular characteristic, denying an opportunity What did Rubin research find? correct answer: Rubin's research found that when whites were shown a picture of an asian woman while listening to a lecture said to be by the pictured woman, they often said she had an accent, or was very intelligent, etc.... when it was actually just the same voice every time but with a different picture of the person Cultural Racism correct answer: cultural images and messages that affirm the assumed superiority of whites; reinforces ideology that sees inferiority of communities of color EX: idea that black people are criminals OR certain racial communities care about education more than the other what does cultural racism explain about the world? correct answer: it gives meaning and justification for how the world works