Diverse Families/Similar Families Flashcards
What is the hypodescent rule?
A determinant of racial identity of people with mixed race backgrounds, whereby an individual is always assigned the status of the subordinate group.
In ___ all Native Americans born in the United States were considered U.S. citizens.
1940
What disease is twice as high in Native Americans than in the rest of the population?
Cirrhosis of the liver–a disease associated with severe alcoholism
Which minority group is the most negatively portrayed?
African Americans
The employment rate for African Americans is ___ that of whites. Why is that?
Twice; it is due to the economic effects of racial inequality, which continue to hamper educational advancement and block access to high-paying jobs
Why are African American women more likely to be single mothers than women in other ethnoracial groups?
Black women are relatively successful compared with black men; thus, they have less financial incentive to marry.
How did Asian Americans get labeled the “model minority”?
They tend to show respect for the cherished U.S. values of hard work, achievement, self-control, dependability, good manners, thrift, and diligence.
What was the “yellow peril”?
Widespread fears that hordes of Chinese would take scarce jobs and eventually overrun the white race.
Why was the predominant family structure among the Chinese in the U.S. a split household?
Chinese men who arrived before 1882 were not allowed to bring their wives and were sometimes separated from their families for 20 years or more. They would provide financial support for their families who still lived back in their home countries.
What was the National Origins Act of 1924?
It barred all further Japanese immigration.
After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, what did President Franklin Roosevelt order for Japanese Americans?
He signed an executive order authorizing a suspension of Japanese American citizens’ constitutional rights and their internment in camps.
What is attributed to the fact that Asian Americans have been successful?
They were forced to turn to their relatives for support; families took on an important economic as well as emotional role in their lives.
Asian Americans come from ___ countries or ethnic groups. What are some of these countries?
28
China, Japan, Korea, India, Phillippines, Vietnamese, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
How does the Census Bureau characterize the “Hispanic origin”?
It characterizes it as an ethnicity, not a race.
When were Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship? Where do they primarily live?
- They live in the large metropolitan areas of the northeast.
