Quiz 1 for Race and Ethnicity SYD 4700/ANT 3451

For each of the following statements, answer either true or false by completely darkening the appropriate circle on the answer sheet with a no. 2 pencil. Also, be sure that your social security number has been entered, and appropriate circles have been darkened, on your answer sheet. Correctly entering your social security number will add 4 points to your score Please note:

1=true

2=false

1. Because American Indians share the same ancestry and culture, they were able to unite in their resistance to European domination .

2. The ancestors of some Mexican-Americans were brought into the United States involuntarily through conquest.

3. The Scotch-Irish and Germans who came to colonial America were viewed with some hostility by Anglo-Americans, who perceived both of these groups as squatting illegally on other people’s land.

4. Competition is the next to the last (third) stage in Park’s race relations cycle.

5. In Gordon’s model, primary assimilation refers to nondiscriminatory sharing by subordinate and dominant group members of occupational, educational, civic, neighborhood, and public recreational settings.

6. According to Gordon, cultural assimilation should occur before secondary assimilation.

7. Primary structural assimilation refers to close, personal interactions between dominant-group and subordinate-group members in churches, social clubs, neighborhoods, families, and so on.

8. Proponents of the separatist version of the pluralist model call for secession

9. Cultural pluralists agree among themselves concerning the degrees and types of assimilation that should be sought by subordinate ethnic groups.

10. Cultural pluralist models posit that both primary assimilation and marital assimilation are low.

11. In the first couple of decades following the arrival of the first blacks in the New World (1619-1660), black indentured servants could not be freed by being baptized, whereas white indentured servant could be freed once they were baptized.