Author Question: Which of the following is a conclusion of a survey on White attitudes toward African Americans? ... (Read 59 times)

wenmo · **on:** Aug 8, 2018

Which of the following is a conclusion of a survey on White attitudes toward African Americans?

a. Less progress wasmade in the 1950s and 1960s than that was made in the late twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
b. The pursuit of a color-blind agenda has created lower levels of support for politics that could reduce racial inequality if implemented.
c. There has been a growing reluctance by Whites for integration, interracial dating, and having members of minority groups attain political office.
d. Even during periods of dramatic social upheaval, White attitudes toward African Americans remain unchanged within all generations.

Question 2

Describe the historical background of Hawaii.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

In South Africa, which of the following did apartheid ensure?

a. amalgamation
b. pluralism
c. segregation
d. chain immigration

tuwy · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Geographically remote, Hawaii was initially populated by Polynesian people who had their first contact with Europeans in 1778, when English explorer Captain James Cook arrived. The Hawaiians (who killed Cook) tolerated the subsequent arrival of plantation operators and missionaries. Fortunately, the Hawaiian people were united under a monarchy and received respect from the European immigrants, a respect that developed into a spirit of goodwill. Slavery was never introduced, even during the colonial period, as it was in so many areas of the Western hemisphere. Nevertheless, the effect of the White arrival on the Hawaiians themselves was disastrous. Civil warfare and disease reduced the number of full-blooded natives to fewer than 30,000 by 1900, and the number is probably well under 10,000 now. Meanwhile, large sugarcane plantations imported laborers from China, Portugal, Japan, and, in the early 1900s, the Philippines, Korea, and Puerto Rico.

In 1893, a revolution encouraged by foreign commercial interests overthrew the monarchy.
During the revolution, the United States landed troops, and five years later, Hawaii was annexed as a territory to the United States. The 1900 Organic Act guaranteed racial equality, but foreign rule dealt a devastating psychological blow to the proud Hawaiian people. American rule had mixed effects on relations between the races. Citizenship laws granted civil rights to all those born on the islands, not just the wealthy Haoles. However, the anti-Asian laws still applied, excluding the Chinese and Japanese from political participation.

The twentieth century witnessed Hawaii's transition from a plantation frontier to the fiftieth state and an integral part of the national economy. During that transition, Hawaii became a strategic military outpost, although that role has had only a limited effect on race relations. Even the attack on Pearl Harbor had little influence on Japanese Americans in Hawaii.

Answer to Question 3

c