Mary, an African American domestic worker, harbors resentment toward Hispanics because she fears they will take her job if she asks for higher wages or misses work for some reason. This racial tension is a consequence of the fact that racial minorities disproportionately make up __________
A) the employed sector of society
B) the reserve army of the unemployed
C) recent immigrants
D) those in power
Answer: B
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Students in lower income neighborhoods
attend poorly funded schools, which limits their chances of getting a good education and going on to college. These school districts are overwhelmingly populated by racial minorities and are a big contributor to __________. A) the minority education gap B) environmental racism C) racial formation D) multiculturalism
Puerto Rican women who joined their husbands in Chicago participated in the
A paid economy. B reproductive work of the family. C paid economy and the reproductive work of the family. D paid economy and or reproductive work, depending on gender relations within the family.
On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time in history, people
a. could only be one race. b. of mixed racial heritage had to identify with one category. c. could identify with more than one racial category. d. could refuse to answer the race question.
______ is the number of years a person in a particular society is expected to live.
A. Demography B. Life Expectancy C. Fertility D. Mortality