Study Guide -- Desmond and Emirbayer: 3. Politics

Study Guide -- Desmond and Emirbayer: 3. Politics

1.       What is sharecropping? Describe it.

2.       What tactics employed to keep blacks from voting after they had won the right to legally participate in elections?

3.       Which institution served as an institutional hub for the Civil Rights Movement?

4.       What were some direct results of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

5.       The Voting Rights Act of 1965 resulted in what?

6.       George Wallace, when he blocked entrance to two black students at the University of Alabama, taught Republican politicians what lessons?

7.       Give examples of couching a race-specific issue—segregation--in race-neutral language.

8.       According to your textbook authors, which of the following statements about the new conservatism is true?
a.       it was direct response to the Civil Rights Movement
b.      it opposes racial equality while never admitting doing so
c.       learned to appropriate the language of the Civil Rights Movement while promoting agendas aimed at dismantling the movement

9.       Did the new conservatives distort the concept of “color-blindness” to mean that public policies that address social problems created by centuries of racial domination are unjust?

10.   Which of the following statements about the post-Civil Rights liberal left is true?
a.       denied the necessity for redress of past wrongs
b.      refused to confront racism head on in order not to fracture the Democratic Party
c.       blamed the failure on nonwhites themselves
d.      supported universalism

11.   Which subsets of Hispanics usually vote Republican?

12.   Which subsets of African Americans usually vote Republican?

13.   In the 2008 presidential election, which racial and ethnic groups favored Obama?

14.   Have researchers documented how, compared to white democrats, nonwhite democrats are more likely to represent the interests of their nonwhite constituents, to draft policy that matters to many nonwhites, and to sponsor bills and make speeches about racial justice?

15.   As the size of the nonwhite population increases in a particular area, does white voter turnout in that area decrease?

16.   In a recent survey, what percent of whites felt that “federal spending on programs that assist blacks should be increased”?


17.   Martin Gilens evaluated whites’ view of welfare. Gilens found that _____ has the most powerful effect on their valuations of welfare policy.

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