can someone please help me if they know anything about history of minorities?

Question by diddybop67: can someone please help me if they know anything about history of minorities?
1. (Points: 4)
Omi and Winant’s main argument is this:

a. That Race does not exist either in biology or society. It’s an empty, meaningless category.
b. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that does not change over time. Race is the most fundemental form of human organization.
c. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that changes over time.
d. Race is only used by racists intent upon getting rich.
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2. (Points: 4)
Omi and Winant refer to the process by which social, economic and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings as __________?????

a. Racism
b. Racialization
c. Deionization of Race.
d. Racial Formation
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3. (Points: 4)
One of the surprising things that students learned in the “Race-Power of an Illusion” transcript was that human gene variation is:

a. Actually very limited. Humans from Africa, Asia and Europe are more alike than different.
b. Shows that we are all mutated from a single woman, likely born in Sibera during the last major ice age.
c. That there are specific “black” genes; specific “Jewish” genes; specific “white” genes and so on. Humans are amazingly diverse when considering our gene pool.
d. Non-existant. There are no genetic differences at all among human populations.
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4. (Points: 4)
The title of the film “Black Robe” refers to:

a. The clothing worn by Father LaForgue
b. The Judges in the Salem witchcraft trials.
c. The clothing shared by Father LaForgue and Chomina
d. The forests of the Iroqouis
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5. (Points: 4)
In 1896, Frederick Hoffman wrote a book that argued that African Americans were:

a. Gifted intellectually.
b. Physically gifted: superior to whites.
c. Intellectually similar to the Chinese.
d. Physically inferior to whites.
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6. (Points: 4)
The economies of Native American peoples:

a. Was soley devoted to farming (agriculture)
b. Varied by the available local enviornment.
c. Were all hunting and gathering bands.
d. Had no economy: their social organization was too primitive.
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7. (Points: 4)
By 1550, this was the major division among Europeans?

a. Race
b. National Identity
c. Ethnicity
d. Religion
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8. (Points: 4)
Started the Protestant Reformation in Germany in 1519?

a. James Brown
b. Pope Pious X
c. Martin Luther
d. King Henri VIII
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9. (Points: 4)
In the film, Black Robe, Mestiqouit is his peoples:

a. Chief
b. War Leader
c. Sachem
d. Shaman
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10. (Points: 4)
Animism is best described as:

a. Religion that focuses on a single God-Monotheism.
b. A form of Islam
c. Links a religious system to the forces of nature.
d. Is a type of Buddhism.
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11. (Points: 4)
Which society did NOT practice a form of Animistic religion

a. Many West African societies circa 1492
b. Ancient Greek and Roman societies
c. Some Native American groups circa 1492
d. Spanish society circa 1492
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12. (Points: 4)
This Native American confederation gave significant roles to women:

a. Algonquin
b. Iroqouis
c. Sioux
d. Powhatan Confederacy
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13. (Points: 4)
In the film “Black Robe” which is NOT a theme?

a. The struggle between Algonquin speaking peoples and the Iroqouis
b. The cultural similarities-although the forms are often different- between Europeans and Native Americans
c. Europeans and Native Americans struggles to make sense of “the other.”
d. The manner in which the French conquered the Indians avanquished them
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14. (Points: 4)
Americans owe a big dept to this Quaker who had a vision of a society that embraced diversity-especially religious diversity.

a. King Henri VIII
b. Saladin
c. Martin Luther
d. William Penn
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15. (Points: 4)
Takaki and others make the point that Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s saw their primary identity, not in terms of being “white.” Instead, this identity proved most important to Europeans.

a. Their ethnic group
b. racial group
c. Religious grou: Christian in general.
d. By social class: Lord, commoner, serf, etc.
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16. (Points: 4)
What is the term for “a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences”?

a. Cultural Pluralism
b. Racism
c. Jingoism
d. The Federline doctrine.
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17. (Points: 4)
Most African Americans can trace the bulk of their African ancestors to this area:

a. West Africa
b. North Africa
c. Europe
d. East Africa
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18. (Points: 4)
Which is not one of the three medieval Empires of Western Afric

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Answer by Mark J
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