The chapter-opening story about the class at New York's Bronx Community College explains that
A. race is a simple matter of skin color.
B. many people have mixed racial and ethnic ancestry.
C. race is not important to the lives of people in the United States.
D. college students have little awareness of race.
Ans: B. many people have mixed racial and ethnic ancestry.
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a. true b. false
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The interactionist approach to gender as accomplishment allows us to view parents as:
a. actors involved in a complex process. b. parts of a machine working in harmony. c. in conflict with one another for power. d. involved in an exchange with the children over gender roles.
Which of the following statements is false regarding crime and race/ethnicity?
a. Racial/ethnic minorities are arrested at higher rates than their numbers in the population would predict. b. Hispanics are arrested roughly in proportion to their population size. c. Racial/ethnic minorities claim they attract an unfair amount of attention from police. d. The NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policy had a 90 percent success rate in capturing would-be criminals.