SOCIOLOGY : RACE, CULTURE, AND ETHNICITY

__SOCIOLOGY : RACE, CULTURE, AND ETHNICITY
 
 
 
__1. This place where members of subordinate races do not often feel welcome. Still, they must navigate this place as a condition of their existence. What is it?

• A)  Cosmopolitan Canopy
• B)  Hypersegregation
• C)  One-Strike Rule
• D)  White Space
• E)  White Working Conception of Race

 
____2. What racial groups are distributed across a geographic area.
is the classical way to measure segregation? It measures the unevenness that

• A)  Centralization
• B)  Clustering
• C)  Concentration
• D)  Dissimilarity
• E)  Isolation

____3. Dr. Duke, a white man, was once caught shoplifting from a grocery store in Texas. The manager spoke with Dr. Duke’s father and decided to give him a second chance. In fact, the manager offered Dr. Duke a job bagging groceries! Dr. Duke worked at that store all through high school and even received a scholarship from the store company to help pay for college. Meanwhile, Dr. Duke’s friend Chad, an African American, was caught shoplifting at a different store. That manager never spoke with Chad’s father. Instead, he called police and had Chad arrested. While Dr. Duke benefitted from white privilege, Chad was subject to what?

• A)  Color-Blind Racism
• B)  De Jure Segregation
• C)  Internalized Prejudice
• D)  Personal Discrimination
• E)  The One-Strike Rule

•  High level of income inequality paired with high levels of racial or ethnic segregation results in what?
  • A)  Concentrated Poverty
  • B)  Dissimilarity
  • C)  Hypersegregation
  • D)  Total Discrimination
  • E)  Urban Renewal
•  Redlining was the banking practice of drawing red lines around certain neighborhoods and then denying home loans in those areas. It was a legal practice until 1977. Redlining was an example of what?
  • A)  Concentrated Poverty
  • B)  De Jure Segregation
  • C)  Miscegenation
  • D)  Reverse Discrimination
  • E)  Urban Renewal
•  This concept refers to the relationship between get-tough-on-crime laws that disproportionately affect Black and Latino men and the fortunes that have been made building, maintaining, and staffing prisons to hold them (Alexander 2012).
  • A)  Current Representation
  • B)  Disparity vs. Discrimination
  • C)  Jim Crow
  • D)  Racialized Mass Incarceration
  • E)  Three-Strikes Laws
•  Several polluting sites in Colorado have been closed following the gentrification of the surrounding neighborhoods. According to Bullard (2018), what increased in the neighborhoods following gentrification that resulted in the closing of those facilities?
  • A)  Control Capacity
  • B)  Disparity vs. Discrimination
  • C)  Environmental Justice
  • D)  Historical Representations
  • E)  Leveling the Playing Field
•  Metaphorically, this replaces the de jure segregation that existed in the United States since the end of slavery until the passage of civil rights legislation (Alexander 2018).
• A)  Environmental Racism
• B)  Selective Victimization
• C)  The Effect of a Criminal Record on Employment
• D)  The New Jim Crow
• E)  Three Strikes, You’re Out

•  According to Austin and Miles (2006), the Army Corps of Engineers constructs levees around rivers to prevent them from overflowing. The levees around New Orleans from the Mississippi River have caused much of the land in the city to sink below sea level. The historically white and wealthy neighborhoods are built on land that remains above sea level. However, many of the black neighborhoods, such as the 9th Ward, are built on land that lies well below sea level. When the levees were destroyed in 1927, 1967, and 2005, the low-lying black neighborhoods were flooded and destroyed (Austin and Miles 2006). Robert Bullard (2012) would call the location of the Black Neighborhoods an example of what?
  • A)  Control Capacity
  • B)  Environmental Racism
  • C)  Historical Representations
  • D)  Pluralism
  • E)  White Space
•  A Laotian neighborhood in a large city sits next to an oil refinery. Robert Bullard (2012) would likely argue that the oil company targeted the neighborhood for the placement of the refinery because of which of the following?
  • A)  Contested Images
  • B)  Global Dumping Grounds
  • C)  Racial Apartheid
  • D)  Racialized Mass Incarceration
  • E)  Selective Victimization