If you were a person of mixed race in the early-twentieth-century American South, into what racial category would you be placed?

A. The darkness of your skin color would determine your racial classification.
B. You would be considered colored or black.
C. Your father's race would determine your racial classification.
D. Your mother's race would determine your racial classification.


Answer: B

Sociology

You might also like to view...

The "young old" refers to people under the age of fifty-five

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

______________ occurs when someone legally and voluntarily takes the child of other parents to raise as one's own

A. Gestational surrogacy B. Adoption C. Abortion D. None of these

Sociology

Social Security was established in

a. 1795 b. 1876 c. 1935 d. 1965

Sociology

Homeostasis means:

What will be an ideal response?

Sociology