A+ Answers of the following Questions

1.  Question :  During the housing bust and recession that began in 2007, family assets in Hispanic families
increased, because some groups had shrewdly bought real estate at the bottom and sold it at the top, especially income property.
remained flat, despite slightly higher unemployment than other immigrant groups.
saw the greatest drop of any ethnic or racial group in the United States.
were often liquidated at a profit and sent back to countries of origin in the form of cash.

2.  Question :  The U.S. Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was that
separate but equal was not acceptable because it was too difficult to make educational facilities equal in quality.
segregated education violated the 14th amendment.
segregated education was unconstitutional because it violated the 13th amendment.
segregated education had to be abolished because African Americans had become too large a minority in numerical terms.

3.  Question :  Mexican Americans have a long history intertwined with the United States, which does not include
late 20th century hostilities between Mexico and the United States
ownership by Mexico of large parts of the Southwest until the mid-nineteenth century.
a legal Mexican-American population of over 11 million and several hundred thousand undocumented immigrants added each year.
the tendency of Mexican-American immigrants to remain in the United States even during severe economic downturns.

1.  Question :  Vietnamese immigration
has a long tradition in U.S. history, beginning in colonial fishing industries.
has had two waves after the fall of Saigon, the first of military-associated personnel and the second mainly of poor rural immigrants.
is noteworthy for the rapid assimilation of recent, highly skilled arrivals.
has overall been most similar to Korean immigration, of all other Asian- American groups.

2.  Question :  The U.S. Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was that
separate but equal was not acceptable because it was too difficult to make educational facilities equal in quality.
segregated education violated the 14th amendment.
segregated education was unconstitutional because it violated the 13th amendment.
segregated education had to be abolished because African Americans had become too large a minority in numerical terms.

3.  Question :  As an ethno nationality, Mexican Americans have in recent decades been politically active in
securing school integration and rights for migrant farm workers.
supporting the political aspirations of Mexico.
combating stereotypes of Mexican-Americans as maids and gardeners.
successfully opposing the harassment of undocumented immigrants through the judicial system.

1. Question :  It is likely that Romani remain oppressed because
they lack a geographic homeland or an existent population of origin that will take them back or support them in other parts of the world.
their lands contain rich resources that are coveted by global corporations.
their religious practices are unique.
they are believed to be a unique ethnic and linguistic groups, similar to Basques.

2.  Question :  The Principle of Rhetorical Inclusion and Practical Exclusion describes
situations where actual racial and ethnic relations do not match their rosy descriptions by government leaders.
the practice of including racial minorities in public discourse but excluding them from access to good jobs and higher education.
the practice of self-help by minority groups, whereby they withdraw from mainstream society.
government attempts to exclude racial prejudice and discrimination from public and social life.

3.  Question :  In Mexico, the term “la raza” refers to
the population of Black Mexicans.
the population of elite Mexicans of unmixed Spanish descent.
most Mexicans who are of both Indian and Spanish descent.
an ideal of racial identity that has been achieved.

1.  Question :  Pluralism means
peaceful co-existence between different races and ethnic groups.
co-existence and competition short of war between different races and ethnic groups.
peaceful cooperation and competition between different races and ethnic groups.
a range of interaction between different races and ethnic groups from peaceful co-existence to outright genocide or extermination.

2.  Question :  Afro-Mexicans
are today a tiny population composed of the descendants of fugitive slaves from the United States, who are well aware of their history.
have become invisible as a distinct group because they blended into “la raza” during the early twentieth century.
are an extremely disadvantaged minority in Mexico, with scant records about them kept by the government.
are secure members of the political ruling class.

3.  Question :  Racial and ethnic conflict
is almost always violent.
does not include intense economic competition.
is usually destructive to all participants.
need not always be violent.

1.  Question :  Australian aboriginal culture
has like Hawaiian indigenous culture been appropriated by commercial interests as tourist attractions.
has largely remained under Aboriginal control, including practices of environmental conservation.
has been eradicated along with most of the aboriginal population.
has merged into Australian mainstream culture as the aboriginal population has moved through all major stages of assimilation.

2.  Question :  Indigenous communities in Mexico
have in recent decades prospered through the drug trade and become economically self-sufficient.
have been relocated to and integrated into urban life, particularly in Mexico City.
have made well-recognized contributions to national culture, particularly linguistic practice.
are often without government assistance, employment, or basic utilities in the isolated areas where they live.

3.  Question :  In Canada, French Canadians
have had both strong rural ethnic retentions and a measure of accommodation from English Canadians.
remain an alienated minority separated from the mainstream by language barriers.
provide a classic example through their history of the relation between violent ethnic conflict and strong ethnic identity.
have succeeded in their separatist goals.