The post?Civil War era witnessed the rapid migration of black Americans from the South to the northern cities—and beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and escalating after World War II, there was a great migration of whites from those

cities to newly developed suburbs. The white migration from cities to suburbs was called __________.

A) white flight
B) integration
C) gentrification
D) re-gentrification


Answer: A

Sociology

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a. poverty. b. their mothers working. c. not having both parents around all the time. d. being stigmatized.

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Attributing those personal traits that you consider undesirable to the members of a minority group, and then condemning these people for having these traits refers to __________.

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HIV/AIDS has devastated many different populations. Efforts to reduce the spread of the disease have often focused on sexual behavior. Many studies in Africa have presumed that awareness of high HIV rates would lead to a change in sexual behavior: the higher the prevalence of HIV, the fewer risky sexual behaviors would be observed (dependent variable). Following widespread educational efforts (independent variable), the actual change in HIV rate showed little to no change. This failure to affect the HIV rate was due to

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