Chapter 9 Student Quiz 2

. The English colonial authority developed the Penal Codes to deny the fundamental rights of

Finns.

Africans.

Jews.

Irish.

. An example of disguised discrimination is when

security guards follow black customers through stores.

the Ku Klux Klan burns crosses on people's lawns.

racial slurs are yelled at people in public.

people are hazed in locker rooms because of their race.

. To justify African slavery, English colonialists portrayed Africans as

criminally insane.

poor workers.

biologically inferior.

powerful leaders.

. In Latin America, social behaviors are what distinguishes

class.

symbolic purity.

"blackness" and "whiteness."

caste.

. Instrumentalism is a(n)

alternative theory of ethnicity that asserts ethnic groups are not naturally occurring or stable.

alternative theory of ethnicity that asserts ethnic groups are naturally occurring and stable.

theory that posits the role of discrimination among ethnic groups.

theory that claims ethnicity is inherited.

. How does race become biology?

because we are born with different skin tones

because of the effects of discrimination and racism on peopleâs health

because of clinal variations

because there is more variation between groups than within them

. In the current US census, how many boxes can you check to mark your race?

one

two

up to four

as many as you want

. One way slave owners expanded their workforce was to include their mixed-race children under the

"separate but equal" laws.

one-drop rule.

Emancipation Proclamation.

US census.

. Who are at the top of varna, the caste system in India?

Brahmans

Kshatriyas

Vaishyas

Shudras

.

Which of the following is an example of disguised discrimination?

limited access to interpreters at a polling place.

Jim Crow laws.

anonymous white nationalist message boards.

"redlining" in housing deeds, which barred certain groups from purchasing homes.

. What is not true of prejudice?

It is acquired through enculturation.

It can be based on a number of markers, as people have many identities.

It is ubiquitous in socially stratified societies.

It cannot be unlearned.

. What is true of social inequality?

It is inevitable in communities with cultural diversity.

It arises from biological differences.

It is static.

It requires the consent of those who benefit from it.

. Why are censuses interesting to anthropologists?

They provide statistical data that can be analyzed for trends.

They outline how the government classifies and categorizes people.

They demonstrate the static nature of racial and ethnic categories.

They provide the flexibility for people to express their personal identities.

. In her formulation of the "invisible knapsack," Peggy McIntosh argues that

everyone can "take off or on" his or her knapsack whenever he or she chooses to.

the knapsack is an example of explicit discrimination.

individuals have privilege even if they do not ascribe to racist ideologies.

most people are conscious of the kinds of privileges afforded to them by their "knapsack."

. What effect has capitalism had on social stratification in non-Western societies?

It has revealed many forms of disguised discrimination.

It has created an equal marketplace for all people.

It has increased class stratification dramatically.

It has eliminated caste-based discrimination.

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