Historians and sociologists cited in Aulette differ in their explanations of the decrease of equality between men and women as African American families moved from slavery to sharecropping
Some suggest that men were attempting to vindicate their manhood by asserting authority over women. Others suggest that ...
a. the seclusion of women in nuclear families with men handling the direct contact with white landowners and merchants was a strategy to protect women from a real threat.
b. the families were merely imitating what they saw in white families and following the norms of Anglo culture.
c. patriarchy is the natural order of things and will happen in the absence of inhibiting factors such as slavery.
d. the claim is a myth and African American families maintained equality.
a
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Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding wealth and poverty in Texas?
a) Household income in Texas is somewhat below the national average. b) The income differential between the poorest and the wealthiest people in Texas is greater than the income differential between the poorest and wealthiest people in the United States as a whole. c) The median income for African American and Latino families in Texas is lower than the median income for non-Hispanic white families. d) The Texas Legislature has enacted legislation to try to decrease the income differential between the poorest and wealthiest people in the state. e) The income gap is attributed to the state having a large population of poorly educated people.
Crisp and Turner created an intervention strategy to help people change their
A. implicit stereotypes. B. explicit stereotypes. C. personal level of stereotype threat. D. threat biases.
High-poverty areas are those in which ______ or more households are impoverished.
A. 10% B. 20% C. 40 % D. 50%
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group• Twenty students from a Syrian college destroyed by the Syrian governmentNow complete the exercise below, being sure to use information and terms (e.g., stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism) from your text in your answers:In two to three pages, draft an outline of a plan. What will be an ideal response?