Week 14 Quiz

In Loving v. Virginia (1967), what did the Supreme Court do?

Select one.

• It upheld state bans on interracial marriage as a matter for each state to decide.
• It struck down only the laws that barred marriages between Black and white partners, leaving every other state ban on interracial marriage in place.
• It unanimously struck down laws prohibiting interracial marriage, for every couple across a racial line.
• It ordered public schools to desegregate with all deliberate speed.

Which statement matches the course's definition of intersectionality?

Select one.

• Overlapping categories, such as race and sex, produce experiences that neither category alone describes.
• A person with more identities carries more separate problems, and those problems are added together into one larger total of disadvantage.
• Each category a person belongs to should be checked on its own, one at a time, and then summed.
• Intersectionality counts how many census boxes a person checks on a federal form.

Which figure did the Census Bureau report for the Multiracial population in 2020?

Select one.

• 9 million
• 24.8 million
• 62.1 million
• 33.8 million

The Census Bureau measured 9 million Multiracial people in 2010 and counted many more in 2020. Which reading of that change matches the Bureau's own?

Select one.

• The multiracial population grew by that much through births and marriages alone in ten years.
• The change was largely due to improvements in the questions' design, data processing, and coding.
• The change shows that the federal categories describe biological groups more precisely each decade.
• The change happened because Loving v. Virginia (1967) took effect only in the 2010s.

Under the 1997 federal standards, from which census on could respondents select one or more races?

Select one.

• The 1990 census
• The 2010 census
• The 2000 census
• The 2020 census

An illustrative restaurant owner hires servers from the owner's own ethnic group but favors the lighter-skinned applicants among them. Which concept best names this pattern?

Select one.

• Colorism, because the line is drawn inside one group by skin tone
• Discrimination between groups, because the owner turns away a whole other group
• Prejudice only, because a preference about skin tone is never an action
• Structural inequality, because it is built up across many institutions over decades

An illustrative store posts a rule banning languages other than English on break. The rule names no group. Which reading fits an intersectional approach?

Select one.

• Because the rule names only language and no group at all, it cannot affect one group of workers more than another group of workers.
• The rule is a religion rule, so the Civil Rights Act of 1964's religion category settles it.
• The rule is the same protection Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 gave voters.
• Language often runs with ethnicity and national origin, so the rule can touch several categories at once.

The archive's E2 excerpt (illustrative) is from a woman whose family moved north in the 1940s, interviewed in the 1990s. Which documented history is it tied to?

Select one.

• The Bracero Program (1942 to 1964)
• The Great Migration and Jim Crow segregation
• The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and family sponsorship
• Executive Order 9066 (1942)

In the illustrative lending table, A-rated applicants were approved 90 percent of the time and D-rated applicants 10 percent of the time. How large is the gap between those two approval rates?

Select one.

• 80 percent
• 9 percentage points
• 80 percentage points
• 100 percentage points

The Census Bureau counted 62.1 million Hispanic or Latino people in 2020, 18.7 percent of the population. Which statement about them matches the federal categories?

Select one.

• They may be of any race, because Hispanic or Latino was asked as an ethnicity separately from race.
• They form one race in the federal categories, so none of them also answered a separate question about race on the 2020 form.
• They form a biological group, which is why the Census Bureau counts them separately.
• They were all counted as Multiracial, because each person checked two boxes.