View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term "affirmative action" first appeared in Executive Order 10925, which was signed by what American President?
(a) Calvin Coolidge.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

2. What is the first of three stages of racial consciousness in minority groups delineated in Jean Phinney's model of ethnic identity development?
(a) Achievement.
(b) Unexamined.
(c) Searching.
(d) Abandonment.

3. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Asian-Pacific American.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Latino.

4. What was the ratio of black men to women at the university Tatum attended in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 5, Racial Identity in Adulthood?
(a) 7 to 1.
(b) 20 to 7.
(c) 13 to 8.
(d) 5 to 1.

5. Beverly Daniel Tatum earned her PhD in clinical psychology from which university?
(a) Hartford Seminary.
(b) Boston College.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) The CUNY Graduate Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fifth stage of William E. Cross, Jr.'s theory of Nigrescence?

2. What refers to discrimination based on protected class status, variously including race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identity, marital status, or veteran status, in the realm of housing and real estate?

3. According to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity, whites are initially unaware how the internalization and socialization of what has affected them?

4. What refers to an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class, privilege, or wealth?

5. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 297 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample