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Exam 9: Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans: Identity and Incorporation

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The post-colonial perspective can be applied to Puerto Rican Americans.

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Which subgroup of U.S.Hispanics is the largest?

A) Mexicans
B) Puerto Ricans
C) Dominicans
D) Cubans

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Compare the Mexican American and Puerto Rican assimilation experience (or lack of assimilation experience) using information provided in Chapter 9.

Which Hispanic group typically scores segregation index scores above 70?

Make the argument that Hispanics represent a very diverse ethnic category of peoples.Use evidence from Chapter 9.

The historic concentration of the Latino population in the United States is where?

The ________ Act of 1968,Title VII was an amendment to the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act which funded bilingual education programs.

Describe the progress made by Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans in terms of primary and secondary assimilation and structural assimilation.

As incomes increase,fluency in English:

Pluralists want only minority children to be bilingual in the United States.

Which category of Mexican American is most likely to interracially marry (marry out) ?

Most Puerto Rican migration to the United States came after WWII.

According to the U.S.Census 2000,Latinos comprise ________ of the total U.S.population.

According to your text,early in U.S.history,Mexican American children were believed to be ________ in language.

When Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States,the locals chose English as the official language.

When Puerto Ricans voted in the 1950 referendum,they chose a:

White Hispanics typically have White friends.

Bilingual education in the United States has been implemented with very little controversy.

What percent of the U.S.Hispanic population is foreign-born?

Lemann proposed that dark skinned Puerto Ricans may face racial discrimination once living in the United States.