QUESTION 18 A process that banks and other institutions refuse to offer mortgages or offer worse rates to customers in certain neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition is called:...

QUESTION 18

1. A process that banks and other institutions refuse to offer mortgages or offer worse rates to customers in certain neighborhoods based on their racial and ethnic composition is called:




3. steering


4. redlining


5. Fair Housing Act.


6. greelining

QUESTION 19

1. Prejudice is to discrimination as thinking is to:




3. doing


4. believing


5. knowing


6. being

QUESTION 20

1. A white man goes into a liquor store for its wine-tasting event in a gentrified neighborhood. He is excited to see the wide range selection of wines as he knows that he can taste all of them for free. An African American man goes into the same store with the same excitement but hesitates to ask to taste all the wines because he is afraid of staff members would think he is being cheap and taking advantages of the tasting event. W. E. B. DuBois would say that the African American man has:




3. false consciousness


4. double consciousness


5. institutional racism


6. sexual microaggression

QUESTION 21

1. Why does racism continue to thrive following European expansion into the rest of the world?


2. As cultural symbols, white and black have long been seen as opposites in African culture, with white symbolizing evil and black symbolizing purity.


3. The concept of race was invented and spread by Asians living in European countries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.


4. Africans justified racism as a way to combat feelings of inferiority imposed on them by Europeans.


5. White Europeans proposed that whites were the superior race.

QUESTION 22

1. The concept of microaggression is important and useful because:


2. it redefines racism and makes room for racism, prejudice, and discrimination that is unintentional and/or subtle.


3. the term is longer than the word "racism," so it sounds more sophisticated.


4. it is developed in the discipline of psychology.


5. it describes the unique ethnic tensions in the U.S.

QUESTION 23

1. Muslims in the U.S. have been undergoing a new racial identity since 9/11, from being formally unnoticed as a group to being singled out for more discrimination. This is known as:




3. racialization


4. microaggression


5. social Darwinism


6. prejudice

QUESTION 24

1. Which perspective focuses on the interaction of race, class, and gender in the disadvantages faced by women?




3. Liberal feminism


4. Black feminism


5. Marxism


6. Parson's sex role theory