Deck 6: Beyond the Mythical Norm: Considering Race, Class, and Gender

Question 1

What is the "Myth of the Strong Black Woman" and how does it conceal the onerous economic difficulties and social demands that African American women face within their communities and personal relationships?

Answer 1

(on pp. 167-168)

Question 2

Define the term "model minority." How does this term legitimize the oppression of other people of color in American society?

Answer 2

(on p. 165)

Question 3

Why working-class women and men are often portrayed in negative images in American society and culture which characterize them as disadvantaged?

Answer 3

(on pp. 162-163)

Question 4

Why does feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh describe the notion of white privilege as an "invisible package of unearned assets?"

Question 5

How does the legacy of past discrimination for a group affect their future generations?

Question 6

Define the term ethnic group. What are the salient differences between an "ethnic group" and a racial group?

Question 7

What economic and social barriers make it difficult for many Black fathers to contribute to and enjoy their responsibilities as fathers?

Question 8

Define the term machismo. Why do researchers contend that it is not one-dimensional and has different subcategories that include both positive and negative characteristics?

Question 9

How do multiracial people contest the authenticity of race as a social construction?

Question 10

Why do some researchers believe that 21^st century American society has entered a "second Gilded Age" in which even children now recognize wealth disparities?

Question 11

Why do some multiracial people describe themselves as having a "blended" or "border" identity?

Question 12

What factors caused the creation of a "bamboo ceiling" for Asian Americans in the United States?

Question 13

Explain why the story of Pocahontas (Matoaka) is the personification of the American frontier?

Question 14

How are the contemporary media representations of African American women rooted in the history of slavery and post slavery?

Question 15

Explain how anti-immigrant groups use the issue of Latina reproduction to instill public fear about the changing demographics in contemporary American society?

Question 16

Why are the stereotypes of Native American men based on a pseudo-history closely aligned to illusions than reality?

Question 17

Explain how striking a "cool pose" by African American men represent a coping strategy when confronting prejudice?

Question 18

Why have some scholars abandoned the traditional "race concept" in favor of adopting the notion of racialization?

Question 19

Why La Malinche/Malinalli exemplifies a quintessential symbol within Latina/o and Chicana/o cultures?

Question 20

Explain why there has been a rise in the number of Americans identifying as multiracial between the 2000 and 2010 Census?

Question 21

What television show about working-class people did not feature a stereotypical working-class male character?

A) The King of Queens
B) The Real Housewives of Atlanta
C) The Simpsons
D) The Honeymooners
E) All in the Family

Question 22

Who created the term "The Latino Threat Narrative"?

A) G. Miguel Arciniega
B) José Torres
C) Gloria Anzaldúa
D) Leo Chávez
E) Carmen Tafolla

Question 23

What percentage of Native Americans live in poverty in the United States?

A) 27
B) 20
C) 48
D) 51
E) 32

Question 24

Which group did Benjamin Franklin described in 1751 as an alien people incapable of adopting the English language?

A) African slaves
B) The Dutch
C) Native Americans
D) Spaniards
E) Germans

Question 25

Who wrote the book Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman?

A) Audre Lorde
B) Patricia Hill Collins
C) Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant
D) Oprah Winfrey
E) bell hooks

Question 26

What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act decreed?

A) 1882
B) 1910
C) 1880
D) 1919
E) 1895

Question 27

What percentage of the U.S. population controls 90 percent of the nation's wealth?

A) 6
B) 10
C) 8
D) 20
E) 7

Question 28

What is the Love Jones cohort named after?

A) A romance novel
B) A romantic comedy film
C) A memoir
D) A video game
E) A restaurant

Question 29

Which celebrity embodies the popular example of a "hot Latina"?

A) Rosario Dawson
B) Eva Mendes
C) Sandra Cisneros
D) America Ferrera
E) Sofia Vergara

Question 30

Which Native American writer won the 2012 National Book Award for the novel The Round House?

A) Sherman Alexie
B) Leslie Marmon Silko
C) Louise Erdrich
D) Gerald Vizenor
E) Paula Gunn Allen

Question 31

Which one of the following is an unnoticed positive trait of machismo?

A) Loyalty
B) Agreeable
C) Tolerant
D) Calmness
E) Empathy

Question 32

Who was the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation?

A) Anna Prieto Sandoval
B) Wilma Mankiller
C) Alyce Spotted Bear
D) Marie Cox
E) Amanda Blackhorse

Question 33

Who were deported from the United States during the 1930s and 1940s?

A) Filipinos
B) Guatemalans
C) Jamaicans
D) Mexicans and Mexican Americans
E) Haitians

Question 34

How many Japanese and Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps in the United States during World War II?

A) 120,000
B) 90,000
C) 150,000
D) 175,000
E) 136,000

Question 35

Who stated that African American women are often "'unseen' in national discussions of 'racial profiling, police brutality and, lethal force'"?

A) Lawrence Thomas
B) Karen Dugger
C) Andrea Ritchie
D) Robert Staples
E) Julianne Malveaux

Question 36

What does the Spanish word caballero mean in English?

A) Soccer Player
B) Minister
C) Trainer
D) Knight
E) Horseman

Question 37

How did the wealth of American families in the bottom 50 percent change between 1989 and 2013?

A) It grew by 260 percent.
B) It did not change significantly.
C) It shrank by 156 percent.
D) It shrank by 260 percent.
E) It grew by 156 percent.

Question 38

Who made this statement, "America is witnessing a kind of renaissance of working-class culture?"

A) Norma Burgess
B) Matthew Desmong
C) Michelle Obama
D) Janell Hobson
E) Taquesha Brannon

Question 39

Which Native American tribe has a net worth of about 4 billion dollars?

A) The Navajo Nation
B) The Cayuga Nation
C) The Hopi Tribe of Arizona
D) The Mississippi Choctaw
E) The Southern Ute

Question 40

What percentage of Black students complete school in 6 years?

A) 30
B) 22
C) 34
D) 46
E) 27

Question 41

Who coined the term "strategic essentialism"?

A) Mae Ngai
B) Michelle Wallace
C) Cheryl Woods-Giscombé
D) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
E) Philip Cohen

Question 42

Which word describes the concept of marianismo?

A) Independent
B) Humble
C) Bold
D) Self-assured
E) Conceited

Question 43

In the U.S. immigration reform of the 1920s, which group was placed at the bottom of its hierarchy of desirable immigrants?

A) Western Europeans
B) Canadians
C) Northern Europeans
D) Australians
E) Latin Americans

Question 44

What is one of the most popular media representations of Native American women?

A) Virgin
B) Homemaker
C) Princess
D) Warrior
E) Caretaker

Question 45

In the past 25 years, no new tribal colleges have opened in the United States.

Question 46

In 2017, two-thirds of all Latinas/os were born in the United States.

Question 47

The writer Cherríe Moraga associated the term vendidas with heterosexism.

Question 48

There is great dissimilarity between the percentage of Blacks and Whites who enter college.

Question 49

In 2016 Asian Americans held only 3.1 percent of seats on Fortune 500 corporate boards.

Question 50

Reality shows that feature working-class men are not very popular.

Question 51

The process of creating racial and ethnic distinctions does not result in othering people.

Question 52

Historian Nell Painter contended that in United States, groups such as Jews, Italians, and the Irish lost their status as separate races from white Anglo-Saxons gradually.

Question 53

In his 1751 essay, Benjamin Franklin expressed his beliefs in racial superiority.

Question 54

Pocahontas died a widow of an English tobacco planter in Jamestown in 1617.