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When sociologists define a minority group, they are primarily concerned with the economic and political power, or powerlessness, of that group. |
| | A) | True |
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The Census 2000 will for the first time allow people to check off as many racial categories as they wish so that one could, for example, check off "White," "American Indian," and "African American." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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A White corporate president with a completely respectful view of Vietnamese Americans refuses to hire such people for executive posts out of fear that biased clients will take their business elsewhere. The president's action constitutes prejudice without discrimination. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Computer technology represents another area of institutional discrimination. Asian Americans are much less likely to have a computer in their home than Whites. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Both the enslavement of Blacks and the extermination and removal westward of Native Americans were, to a significant extent, economically motivated. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The term genocide has been used in reference to the killing of 1 million Armenians by Turkey beginning in 1915. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Great Britain is an example of a nation that has been notably successful in achieving cultural pluralism in a multiracial society. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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During the Second World War, the federal government decreed that all German Americans on the East Coast leave their homes and report to "evacuation camps." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Politically, Puerto Ricans in the United States have been more successful than Mexican Americans in organizing for their rights. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Despite high levels of education and professional training, Jewish Americans are still conspicuously absent from the top management of large corporations (except for the few firms founded by Jews). |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education