COUC 504 week 5 Test Questions Answered Correctly Latest Update 2025-2026
Terminology - Answers - Black Americans began labeling them-selves publicly as a group most
noticeably in the 1960s, with the expression "Black is beautiful"
- term African American came about in the 1980s
demographics - Answers - African Americans make up approximately 12.6% (38.9 million) of the
U.S. population
- population has grown by over 12% since year 2000
- The Black population has slightly more females (52.3%) than males (47.7%), with nearly 26% of
the population under 18 years and only 9.7% over 65 years
- The Black population has slightly more females (52.3%) than males (47.7%), with nearly 26% of
the population under 18 years and only 9.7% over 65 year
- Of those 98,304 African immigrants, 13,097 were from Ethiopia; 10,265 came from Ghana;
6,123 identified Kenya as their country of origin; 13,840 were Nigerian; and 59 were from South
Sudan
- large numbers of Black Caribbean immigrants came to the United States primarily from three
countries: Haiti (20,351), Jamaica (19,400), and Trinidad and Tobago (4,724). To this list of
countries we must add and consider Haitians coming from the Dominican Republic (41,311)
- Black immigrants to the United States are outnumbered by non-Black Latino/a and Asian
immigrants, the Black immigrant population has more than quadrupled, from 816,000 in 1980 to
3,793,000 in 2013
- poverty rate for African Americans remains nearly 3 times higher than that of White Americans
(27.2% vs. 9.6%
- the unemployment rate for African Americans remains twice as high as that of White
Americans (13.1% vs. 6.5%
- Blacks are incarcerated at a rate 5 times higher than Whites
- 20.8% of Blacks are college graduates from 4-year universities, as opposed to 43.3% of Whites
- African Americans have the lowest high school graduation rate
African American History - Answers - Europeans were responsible for the categorical system
based on race, the darker one's skin and the further an individual's features were from the
European standard, the lower was the status of the individual in society
- Racial categories were always hierarchical, with the darkest individuals compared to animals
, and the lightest individuals considered to be made in "God's image."
- the more White blood slaves had, the more privileges they had over their darker counterparts.
Lighter skinned slaves were able to work in the slave owner's house, and darker skinned slaves
had to work outdoors all day
- first Africans arrived in the United States in 1619 as indentured servants
- From the mid-1600s through 1965, laws were used to justify the physical, mental, and spiritual
abuse of African Americans. Early models of mental health pathologized Africans
- Laws considered slaves to be one tenth of a human being.
- Black families are not strictly nuclear, and Black children are often raised by their close
biological relatives and extended family
- African Americans are less likely to use mental health counseling services and are more likely
to be misdiagnosed
scientific racism - Answers an unethical practice initiated during the middle of the 18th century
through the beginning of the 20th century whereby pseudoscientists played an integral role in
promulgating myths that indigenous non-Whites were racially inferior
one-drop rule - Answers states that having one drop of Black blood makes one Black
colorism - Answers where African Americans with lighter skin are often perceived as having an
easier time than African Americans with darker skin
- a form of internalized racism, wherein lighter skin is sometimes more valued than darker skin
in the African-American community
- skin color can be related to self-esteem, body image issues, and feelings of attractiveness
- Those with "black skin" do not all have the same culture
drapetomania - Answers was said to be a noted mental illness of slaves who tried to escape
from their owners
Post-civil war reconstruction - Answers - the brief historical period between the end of
enslavement in 1865 and the beginning of the Jim crow era in 1877
Jim crow laws - Answers maintained and supported segregationist policies that governed the
lives of Blacks in America
- These racist policies were enforced by legal institutions such as the police and courthouses
through the 1960s.
- Blacks have been seen as a "problem people," a people to be hated and feared, and a threat
Terminology - Answers - Black Americans began labeling them-selves publicly as a group most
noticeably in the 1960s, with the expression "Black is beautiful"
- term African American came about in the 1980s
demographics - Answers - African Americans make up approximately 12.6% (38.9 million) of the
U.S. population
- population has grown by over 12% since year 2000
- The Black population has slightly more females (52.3%) than males (47.7%), with nearly 26% of
the population under 18 years and only 9.7% over 65 years
- The Black population has slightly more females (52.3%) than males (47.7%), with nearly 26% of
the population under 18 years and only 9.7% over 65 year
- Of those 98,304 African immigrants, 13,097 were from Ethiopia; 10,265 came from Ghana;
6,123 identified Kenya as their country of origin; 13,840 were Nigerian; and 59 were from South
Sudan
- large numbers of Black Caribbean immigrants came to the United States primarily from three
countries: Haiti (20,351), Jamaica (19,400), and Trinidad and Tobago (4,724). To this list of
countries we must add and consider Haitians coming from the Dominican Republic (41,311)
- Black immigrants to the United States are outnumbered by non-Black Latino/a and Asian
immigrants, the Black immigrant population has more than quadrupled, from 816,000 in 1980 to
3,793,000 in 2013
- poverty rate for African Americans remains nearly 3 times higher than that of White Americans
(27.2% vs. 9.6%
- the unemployment rate for African Americans remains twice as high as that of White
Americans (13.1% vs. 6.5%
- Blacks are incarcerated at a rate 5 times higher than Whites
- 20.8% of Blacks are college graduates from 4-year universities, as opposed to 43.3% of Whites
- African Americans have the lowest high school graduation rate
African American History - Answers - Europeans were responsible for the categorical system
based on race, the darker one's skin and the further an individual's features were from the
European standard, the lower was the status of the individual in society
- Racial categories were always hierarchical, with the darkest individuals compared to animals
, and the lightest individuals considered to be made in "God's image."
- the more White blood slaves had, the more privileges they had over their darker counterparts.
Lighter skinned slaves were able to work in the slave owner's house, and darker skinned slaves
had to work outdoors all day
- first Africans arrived in the United States in 1619 as indentured servants
- From the mid-1600s through 1965, laws were used to justify the physical, mental, and spiritual
abuse of African Americans. Early models of mental health pathologized Africans
- Laws considered slaves to be one tenth of a human being.
- Black families are not strictly nuclear, and Black children are often raised by their close
biological relatives and extended family
- African Americans are less likely to use mental health counseling services and are more likely
to be misdiagnosed
scientific racism - Answers an unethical practice initiated during the middle of the 18th century
through the beginning of the 20th century whereby pseudoscientists played an integral role in
promulgating myths that indigenous non-Whites were racially inferior
one-drop rule - Answers states that having one drop of Black blood makes one Black
colorism - Answers where African Americans with lighter skin are often perceived as having an
easier time than African Americans with darker skin
- a form of internalized racism, wherein lighter skin is sometimes more valued than darker skin
in the African-American community
- skin color can be related to self-esteem, body image issues, and feelings of attractiveness
- Those with "black skin" do not all have the same culture
drapetomania - Answers was said to be a noted mental illness of slaves who tried to escape
from their owners
Post-civil war reconstruction - Answers - the brief historical period between the end of
enslavement in 1865 and the beginning of the Jim crow era in 1877
Jim crow laws - Answers maintained and supported segregationist policies that governed the
lives of Blacks in America
- These racist policies were enforced by legal institutions such as the police and courthouses
through the 1960s.
- Blacks have been seen as a "problem people," a people to be hated and feared, and a threat
