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According to the US census, what is the definition of "Black or African-American"? - correct answer Someone with origins in the Black racial groups of Africa According to the US census, what is the definition of 'White'? - correct answer ...

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According to the US census, what is the definition of "Black or African-American"? - correct answer
Someone with origins in the Black racial groups of Africa



According to the US census, what is the definition of 'White'? - correct answer
Someone with origins in the original people of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa



On the US census, how are we asked to think about Hispanic origins? - correct answer
According to the census, Hispanic origins are not a race; presumably, the thought is that Hispanic/Latinx
origins have more to do with common language and ethnicity than with "race"



Which of the following is true of the US census? Check ALL that apply, canvas will take off points for an
incorrect answer. - correct answer 1. Until 2000, you could not check more
than one race box

2. Since 1997, the US census recognizes 5 primary race categories (it recognized only 4 before then):
White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or
Pacific Islander

3. Race boxes/categories on the census have changed over time, with some boxes appearing and others
disappearing over time



What does it mean to say that skin color is non-concordant with traits of character or with intellectual or
physical abilities? Select the best answer - correct answer the genes that code
for skin color are independent of the genes that code for character, intellectual or physical ability



Which of the following are reasons for thinking that race cannot be biologically determined/defined?
Check all that apply, Canvas will take off points if you select an incorrect answer. - correct answer
Race cannot be biologically determined by a person's skin color, because people with the exact same
skin color will categorized as belonging to different race categories (for example, an Indian person, a
South American person and an African person can have the same skin color)

There is no physical characteristic (or combination of characteristics) that all members of race all have in
common and no one from any other race has/shares

, According to your PBS video, which of the following is true of genetic variation between any two
randomly selected humans? - correct answer It is much smaller that the
genetic variation between any two randomly selected (almost identical looking) penguins or fruit flies



In the US, sickle cell disease affects African-Americans more often than it affects other people. What
best explains this? - correct answer Sickle cell genes confer malarial
resistance, and worldwide these genes (along with sickle cell disease) are more prevalent in people
whose ancestors lived in malarial regions. These geographical regions include: the Mediterranean basin
(in countries like Greece), Western and Central Africa, but not Southern Africa. It is because African-
Americans in the US are more likely to have ancestors in Western and Central Africa that they are more
likely to have sickle cell disease.



According to Which of the PBS video, which of the following did "race scientists" historically scrutinize to
find evidence of significant physical differences between people of different "races"? Check all that
apply - correct answer Angles of facial features

Skull sizes

Every single bodily organ

Hair structure



We can't be using skin color only as the basis for making everyday "racial" classifications. Why not?
Check all that apply - correct answer Because skin color changes along a
continuum with no natural boundaries between them

Because two people who fall into different everyday "race: categories (in the student workshop, for
example, an Asian student and a White student) can have the exact same skin color



For the ancient greeks, sex meant - correct answer penetration



Match the people with their place in the political hierarchy of Ancient Greece (1 being the people at the
top with the most political power and 5 the people at the bottom) - correct answer
Citizen adult males

citizen adolescent males

women and children

foreigners

slaves

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