Ethnic Studies on Race and Ethnicity

Race is a social construct, but ethnicty is not.

• True

• False

Race was determined historically based on skin color, and still is today based completely on skin color.

• True

• False

Ethnicity is a social construct centered around a person's geographical and cultural heritage.

• True

• False

Humans created "race" to categorize people for easier exploitation.

• True

• False

What we think of a "race" comes from _____ things in our evolutionary and migratory past.

• one

• two

• three

• four

Sexual selection explains physical traits that get repeated amongst an isolated group because

• the females find them attractive so males who have them mate and reproduce more often.

• the males demand them of the females.

• the group is indeed isolated, and has "drifted" away from all others genetically.

• the traits help with survival in a particular environment.

A manx cat is a tailless cat that originated on the Isle of Man. This is a genetic fluke that has been repeated over and over because of the isolation of this cat population. This is a good example of:

• natural selection

• genetic drift

• sexual selection

If we are all related to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago, why aren't Europeans dark-skinned?

• Natural Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Sexual Selection

• All of the above.

In the early 18th century Carl von Linneaus articulated that there was/were ___________ distinctive human race(s).

• Four

• Ten

• 37

• One

The AnthroNotes article talks about ____________________ to make the point that skin color is one of many physical traits, and that it might make more sense to have race be based on this than skin color.

• eye color

• blood type

• height

• ear shape