Race, Racism, and Stereotypes Quiz

What is an oversimplified, exaggerated, or unfavorable generalization about a category of people?

• Stereotypes

• Racism

• Minority Groups

• Dominant Group

What is the belief that one’s race or ethnic group is naturally superior to other races or ethnic groups?

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Institutional Discrimination

What is a group of people who, because of their physical characteristics or cultural patterns, are singled out and unequally treated?

• Minority Groups

• Dominant Group

• Individual Biases

• Colorblind Racism

What is a group that possesses the ability to discriminate by virtue of its greater power, privilege, and social status in society?

• Dominant Group

• Minority Groups

• Structural Racism

• Systemic Racism

What is an unsupported generalization about a category of people?

• Prejudice

• Racism

• Stereotypes

• Discrimination

What is a denial of equal treatment to individuals based on their group membership?

• Discrimination

• Institutional Discrimination

• Interactional Racism

• Discursive Racism

What is discrimination that is an outgrowth of the structure of society and is built into the systems that make society function?

• Institutional Discrimination

• Individual Biases

• Colorblind Racism

• Ideological Racism

What is rooted in individual beliefs, attitudes, and stereotypes about race and racial groups?

• Individual Biases

• Representational Racism

• Discursive Racism

• Interactional Racism

What relies on the concept that race-based differences don’t matter and ignores the realities of systemic racism?

• Colorblind Racism

• Ideological Racism

• Representational Racism

• Structural Racism

What is an ideology that considers a group’s physical characteristics to be causally related to inferiority or superiority?

• Ideological Racism

• Discursive Racism

• Interactional Racism

• Systemic Racism