Most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have ______.
A. supported the use of affirmative action programs especially in educational settings
B. generally rejected the use of affirmative action as a decision making tool.
C. allowed one type of discrimination to correct another type of discrimination
D. have not addressed the issue of affirmative action in any meaningful way
Answer: B
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a. Heterogeneous societies b. Subcultures c. Homogeneous societies d. Counterculture
As a result of anti-malaria pesticide campaigns in the less developed nations,
A. many mosquitoes have become resistant to pesticides. B. malaria is no longer a serious threat. C. bird and fish populations have flourished. D. tuberculosis has become more common. E. AIDS has become more common.
In the United States, the official definition of Hispanic
a. considers the complex history and intermixing of people in Latin America. b. acknowledges the diversity of people who are considered Hispanic. c. divides the U.S. population into two ethnic categories: Hispanic and non-Hispanic. d. considers Hispanics as one of six official racial categories.
Recently, a city government decided it needed a new landfill so it bought the cheapest land it could find, which happened to be next to a neighborhood which was predominately populated by minorities. This is an example of __________
A) individual racism B) institutional racism C) environmental racism D) nativism