Human Services and Diversity
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Human Services and Diversity explores the intersection of social services and the diverse backgrounds of individuals and communities served by human service professionals. The course examines the impact of race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, religion, ability, sexual orientation, and culture on access to and delivery of human services. Students will develop an understanding of personal and systemic biases, practice cultural humility, and learn strategies for providing equitable and inclusive care. Through case studies and discussions, the course prepares students to work effectively and ethically in diverse settings, fostering respect and advocacy for all individuals.
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Racial and Ethnic Relations in America 7th Edition by S. Dale McLemore
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Chapter 1: Natives and Newcomers
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Q1) Recent immigration patterns to the United States have taken on a transnational character.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The popular view assumes that assimilation occurs in three generations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Straight-line theory is very controversial among scholars.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Which of the following researchers discussed the issue of subsocieties and subcultures in assimilation?
A) Park
B) Gordon
C) Hansen
D) Handlin
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Together or Apart Some Competing Views
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Q1) Separationists do not seek for a total separation from mainstream society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Almost all of the Dutch gave up their culture and their language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Blauner argued that "the communities of color in America share essential conditions with Third World nations abroad." These include all of the following,except:
A) high birth rates.
B) economic underdevelopment.
C) heritage of colonialism.
D) lack of political autonomy.
Answer: A
Q4) Pluralists believe that no one can become 100 percent American.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Anglo American Society
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Q1) The Iroquois formed a confederacy against the English.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Scotch-Irish left dire poverty to come to America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Indians all spoke the same language in America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Considerable evidence suggests that Blacks ________ slavery.
A) resisted
B) invited
C) welcomed
D) legislated
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Golden Door
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Q1) The earliest Jews to arrive in the United States were called the Sephardim.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In spite of the rise of Italians,Austrians,and Russians,Germans continued to be the number one source for United States immigrants.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By the 1890s,the leading regions of immigrants coming to the United States were:
A) Southern and Eastern Europe.
B) Northern and Western Europe.
C) Latin American.
D) Asian.
Q4) In 1924 the United States began using immigration quotas with the national-origins principle.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ellis Island had about 16 million immigrants successfully enter through its gates.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Nativism and Racism
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Q1) The Immigration Act of 1924 resulted in a dramatic change in America's historic:
A) closed-door policy.
B) revolving-door policy.
C) open-door policy.
D) shut-tight door policy.
Q2) Summarize the main theories of prejudice providing a pro and con argument for each one.
Q3) Prejudice must be present to keep the current institutional discrimination system intact.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Americans may exhibit a social desirability bias that is to say exactly how they feel and get it all out in the open.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Make a brief list of four attempts at scientific racism which failed and why each failed.
Q6) Describe how the Immigration Act of 1924 significantly changed the trends of immigration to the United States.
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Chapter 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation
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Q1) After the Civil War the North divided the southern states into ten military districts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A new form of southern economic slavery that impoverished Whites and Blacks was called:
A) slavery.
B) indentured servitude.
C) human bondage.
D) sharecropping.
Q3) Garvey came under fire exclusively from Whites who felt threatened by his "Back to Africa" campaign.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Almost every Black civil rights activist supported the Atlanta Compromise.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Lost Nation of Islam was a separationist movement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: African Americans: Protest and Social Change
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Q1) Which decade saw a calming of the civil rights activism?
A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 2000s
Q2) Large numbers of Blacks are unemployed,underemployed,or are employed at substandard wages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The theory of spatial assimilation claims that the more minorities assimilate,the more they would move into less segregated neighborhoods.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The authors argue that many African Americans have moved slowly toward citizenship suffering more from ________ ________ than from old fashion racism.
A) modern sharecropping
B) modern slavery
C) modern racism
D) modern servitude
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Chapter 8: Mexican Americans: From Colonized Minority to Political Activists
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Q1) About 75,000-100,000 Mexicans were in Texas territory as conquered citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Zoot Suit Riot had international implications for America's true racist nature.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The conquerors of Mexico were Christian and European.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Over the 140 years of the Mexican American experience,the process of assimilation has ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ among the Mexican Americans as one would expect.
A) "not allowed for Anglo conformity"
B) "not produced as much change"
C) "intensely altered Mexican American culture"
D) "intensely altered European cultural traits"
Q5) How are Mexican Americans both an immigrant and colonized group?
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Q6) Make the argument that an anti-assimilationist perspective best serves a clear understanding of the Mexican American experience.
Chapter 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and
Incorporation
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Q1) Lemann proposed that dark skinned Puerto Ricans may face racial discrimination once living in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans have not:
A) substituted Spanish for English.
B) substituted English for Spanish.
C) remained for generations in the United States.
D) voted in favor of bilingual education.
Q3) When Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States,the locals chose English as the official language.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Based on one study,the most preferred racial-group classification was:
A) Hispanic.
B) Latin.
C) Mexican.
D) Spanish-origin.
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Q5) Describe some of the unique hardships faced by Mexican Americans and by Puerto Ricans.
Chapter 10: Native Americans: the First Americans
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Q1) The Courts have heard many Indian rights issues,but not fishing rights.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Pick one historical event of Anglo treatment of Indians that you feel symbolizes the overall experience of natives with the dominant group.Explain your position.
Q3) Describe how the migration of Native Americans off the reservations and into the cities and towns has influenced assimilation.
Q4) The Dawes Act was designed to preserve Native Tribal cultures against assimilation.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Each of the following tribes reported 100,000 members or more except: A) Cherokee.
B) Iroquois.
C) Choctaw.
D) Sioux.
Q6) The Indians won the French and Indian War.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Japanese Experience
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Q1) Nisei were American-born citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By 1941,the Japanese American community had been developed for ________ years.
A) 27
B) 50
C) 92
D) 127
Q3) The majority of Japanese in the 1900 U.S.Census count were:
A) old.
B) women.
C) men.
D) citizens.
Q4) The text points out that Japanese Americans exceed Whites in all of the following except:
A) crime rates.
B) income.
C) education.
D) professional occupations.
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Chapter 12: Chinese, Asian Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, and Middle Eastern Arab Americans
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Q1) World War II united,to a certain degree,U.S.and Chinese interests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare and contrast the major Asian ethnic groups discussed in Chapter 12 in terms of numbers of men to women in early years of immigration,global circumstances that worked in their favor as immigrants,and hostility from U.S.natives.
Q3) Which organization assisted Chinese immigrants with many different life challenges and stood as diplomatic representative to them?
A) CACA
B) CCCC
C) CBBB
D) CCBA
Q4) Filipino Americans went from American nationals to aliens.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Chinese were forbidden,even after court rulings,to bring wives and children to the United States.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Vietnamese Americans, Arab Americans, and Resurgent Racism
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Q1) This country housed the refugee encampment of hundreds of thousands who fled war-torn Vietnam.
A) Taiwan
B) Japan
C) Thailand
D) Hong Kong
Q2) Caplan,Whitmore,and Choy (1989) found that none of the Boat people in their study knew English.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As newer Arab American immigrants came to the United States,earlier ones:
A) considered them different.
B) united with them.
C) called them Christians.
D) did not unite with them into communities.
Q4) Briefly describe the factors pertinent to the first,second,and third-period Arab immigrants. How do they compare and contrast?
Q5) The most common type of U.S.hate group organization is the neo-Nazis.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: The Future of Ethnicity
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Q1) A sizable portion of the U.S.population does not want their children to attend schools with:
A) Asians.
B) Hispanics.
C) Polynesians.
D) Blacks.
Q2) The authors discuss all of the following countries which are having race relations problems, except:
A) South Africa.
B) Germany.
C) Sweden.
D) Canada.
Q3) Alba and Nee (1997) found that "there is abundant evidence that assimilation has been the ________ among the descendants of the immigrants...who mainly came from Europe...before 1930."
A) bain of failure
B) bain of taunting
C) slave trend
D) master trend
Q4) Support the claim that cultural pluralism is common among U.S.ethnic groups.
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