Articles 23 & 24
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. According to "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?", social scientists consider ethnicity primarily a:
a. | belief in a common ancestry. |
b. | social phenomenon. |
c. | biological phenomenon. |
d. | matrilineal phenomenon. |
____ 2. According to Mary Waters in "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" White ethnics fail to recognize:
a. | the difference between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced and imposed racial identity. |
b. | the similarity between individualistic symbolic ethnic identity and a socially enforced and imposed racial identity. |
c. | the difference between ethnic acceptance and rejection. |
d. | both b and c |
____ 3. According to "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" as a result of the exclusion they experienced at college, Black students form:
a. | militant defense groups. |
b. | oppositional identities. |
c. | inhibited identities. |
d. | all of the above |
____ 4. Researchers call people who maintain strong, regular ties to their homelands and who organize aspects of their lives across national borders:
a. | international immigrants |
b. | dual-nation migrants |
c. | transnational migrants |
d. | host and homeland immigrants |
____ 5. Social scientists previously argued that to move up the social and economic ladder in America, most immigrants would have to ____ their unique customs, language and values.
a. | abandon |
b. | retain |
____ 6. Monies that families in homeland countries receive from relatives in the United States are called:
a. | allowances |
b. | stipends |
c. | remittances |
d. | donations |
Essay
7. What is "symbolic ethnicity"?
8. How does ethnic identity formation differ for White and non-White groups?
9. Can you identity racial tensions on campus similar to the examples Waters talks about? How can these tensions be resolved? [If you cannot think of tensions on campus, try to think of tensions within your community or the community you grew up in]
10. What are the similarities and differences between the Dominicans and Gujaratis in Boston?
Short Answer
11. Race Traitor
http://racetraitor.org/
a. What is the position of Race Traitor? What is your reaction to this message?
b. In your opinion, is anti-racist work compromised by recognizing a white identity?
c. How does recognizing race as a socially constructed concept affect one's understanding of his or her own racial identity?
The Latin American Migration Project (LAMP)
http://lamp.opr.princeton.edu/
d. What is the purpose of LAMP and what methodology does it use?
e. On what countries has LAMP collected data?
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