COUC 504 week 5 questions and answers
2024\2025 A+ Grade
Terminology
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer states that having one drop of Black blood makes one Black
colorism
- correct answer 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
- correct answer was said to be a noted mental illness of slaves who tried to escape from their owners
Post-civil war reconstruction
- correct answer - the brief historical period between the end of enslavement in 1865 and the beginning
of the Jim crow era in 1877
Jim crow laws
- correct answer 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
Black Racial Identity
- correct answer - Black identity can have negative implications for mental health issues and self-esteem
- a positive racial identity serves a protective function for individuals of African descent shielding them
from negative societal messages about being Black
- African-American adolescents who received affirming cultural socialization messages within schools
were less likely to experience adverse consequences
Cross Model of Racial Identity (1971)
- correct answer - is a prominent framework for understanding Black racial identity
- model describes a process by which most African Americans come to embrace and internalize a
positive Black identity despite instances of racial discrimination and negative societal messages about
being Black
Sellers, Smith, Shelton, Rowley, and Chavous (1998)
- correct answer developed a multidimensional model of racial identity that provides a framework for
understanding both the significance of race in the self-concept of African Americans and the qualitative
meaning that is attributed to being a member of that racial category
acculturation
- correct answer - refers to specific influences on socialization and how one's racial identity is practiced
2024\2025 A+ Grade
Terminology
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer - 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
- correct answer 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
- correct answer states that having one drop of Black blood makes one Black
colorism
- correct answer 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
- correct answer was said to be a noted mental illness of slaves who tried to escape from their owners
Post-civil war reconstruction
- correct answer - the brief historical period between the end of enslavement in 1865 and the beginning
of the Jim crow era in 1877
Jim crow laws
- correct answer 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
Black Racial Identity
- correct answer - Black identity can have negative implications for mental health issues and self-esteem
- a positive racial identity serves a protective function for individuals of African descent shielding them
from negative societal messages about being Black
- African-American adolescents who received affirming cultural socialization messages within schools
were less likely to experience adverse consequences
Cross Model of Racial Identity (1971)
- correct answer - is a prominent framework for understanding Black racial identity
- model describes a process by which most African Americans come to embrace and internalize a
positive Black identity despite instances of racial discrimination and negative societal messages about
being Black
Sellers, Smith, Shelton, Rowley, and Chavous (1998)
- correct answer developed a multidimensional model of racial identity that provides a framework for
understanding both the significance of race in the self-concept of African Americans and the qualitative
meaning that is attributed to being a member of that racial category
acculturation
- correct answer - refers to specific influences on socialization and how one's racial identity is practiced
