5. Identity, Race and Ethnicity

Race As Social Construct — Quiz

Test your understanding of race as social construct with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

Which concept describes the centering of whiteness as the default normative standard against which other racial identities are measured?

Question 2

What term in anthropology refers to how individuals enact racial identities through bodily practices, gestures, speech patterns, and style?

Question 3

The iterative redefinition of census racial categories to include emerging or hybrid identities (e.g., Middle Eastern/North African) exemplifies which process?

Question 4

The widespread use of direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing services that assign individuals to continental population groups best illustrates which phenomenon?

Question 5

Which concept describes the positioning of Asian Americans as simultaneously superior to other minority groups yet perpetually foreign relative to Whites?