Sociology Chapter 5: African Americans: From Segregation to Modern Institutional Discrimination and Modern Racism

Which of the following statements about African Americans today is false?

None of the above

Both the civil rights and Black Power movements tended to be dominated by

men

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision overturned the principle of ________, established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

"separate but equal"

Rosa Parks, a seamstress and NAACP member, is famous for

Refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man

The Black Power movement was an important move toward

Pluralism

Fannie Lou Hamer of Mississippi founded the

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

African Americans and other minority groups of color have been adversely affected by the national loss of jobs in the ________.

manufacturing sector

Opposed to the culture of poverty theory, the analysis presented in the text sees the high percentage of female-headed households in the African American community as ________.

a result of poverty and unemployment

9. In regard to level of education, the gap between African Americans and European Americans has ________.

decreased for both men and women but has not disappeared

The unemployment rate for African Americans is about ________ as that for European Americans.

twice as high

In recent decades, the number of interracial marriages has

increased

According to the text, what is the most probable effect of past-in-present discrimination on the economic marginality of the black middle class?

The black middle class will be more economically marginal

In a recent study on modern racism, the most commonly endorsed explanation for the continuing black-white inequality was that . . .

Black Americans lacked the motivation to pull themselves out of poverty

In a recent study on modern racism, respondents who attributed continuing racial inequality to either the lack of ability or the lack of motivation of African Americans also . . .

Opposed government intervention

Sociologist Rogelio Saenz (2005) analyzed the situation of blacks in the 15 largest metropolitan areas in the nation and found that . . .

African Americans are much more likely to be cut off from economic and social service opportunities

Recent state laws that require voters to show a government-issued photo ID are seen as a way to ________.

restrict voting rights

Americans between the ages of ________ are most likely to approve of interracial marriage.

18 and 29

Today, about half of all African Americans reside in the North.

False

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was important as a Supreme Court decision in 1954 because it allowed a few African American children to go to school with white children.

True

The culture of poverty theory proves that the issue of urban poverty is due to female-headed families with "bad" or inappropriate work values.

False

Modern racism is a form of blaming the victim; it sees the problem of inequality as the responsibility of minority groups and not the larger society.

True