Study guide for race and immigration

Study guide for race and immigration

CHAPTER 3: RACE AND IMMIGRATION

1.       the racial categories that the U.S. Census uses

2.       examples of institutional discrimination

a.       Jim Crow laws

b.       environmental discrimination

c.       poor-quality schools

d.       inadequate public transportation

3.       middle-income black families in white neighborhoods (describe their experience)

4.       What happens when African Americans become successful? (describe their experience)

5.       Ellis Cose in The Rage of the Privileged Class

6.       racial and ethnic inequality by educational attainment

7.       Why do immigrants cluster in ethnic enclaves?

8.       William J. Wilson

9.       Elijah Anderson, in Code of the Street

10.   assimilation

11.   proponents of “English Only” laws

12.   ethnocentrism

13.   color-blind racism

14.   stereotype

15.   prejudice

16.   Research shows that ongoing segregation in the United States is driven by what factors?

Race in the American Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy 

17.   By the early 1970s, the vast majority of whites endorsed equal access to employment and the integration of public transportation.

18.   By the mid-1990s, whites showed near-universal endorsement for the principle of public school integration.

19.   Negative racial stereotypes remain the norm in white America.

20.   Between half and three-quarters of whites still express some degree of negative stereotyping of blacks and Latinos.

21.   The share of whites asserting that persisting racial discrimination is the main cause of inequality remained constant at 20 percent between 1977 and 2004.

22.   12.6 percent of whites said access to a good education is the primary barrier to blacks’ upward mobility in 2004, nearly double the figure in 1977.

23.   Between one-fifth and one-quarter of whites believe that blacks and Latinos face “a lot” of discrimination in the labor market.

24.   Upwards of two thirds of blacks as well as 60 percent of Latinos believe that structural barriers inhibit their groups’ upward mobility.

25.   group that exhibits the strongest preference for same-race neighbors

26.   study conducted by Bertrand and Mullainathan (2004)

 

27.   Pager (2003) study