Deck 8: Living in a Globalizing World

Question 1

Critics of the partitioning of the US-Mexico border has not allowed from Mexican Americans to "cross the border" but that the border has:

A) crossed them
B) separated the land
C) separated the countries
D) divided opinions

Answer 1

A

Question 2

If the total number of migrants were a nation, it would be the fifth _____ country in the world (after China, India, the United States, and Indonesia).

A) largest
B) most populated
C) most diverse
D) richest

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Reproductive work is a broader concept than care work, because it also includes menial, non-relational work _____ that is mainly done by migrant women and women of color.

A) preparing food
B) doing laundry
C) cleaning floors
D) all of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Human trafficking, more broadly defined, the recruitment, harboring, movement, or obtaining of a person by force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of:

A) involuntary servitude
B) debt bondage
C) slavery
D) all of the above

Question 5

Extractivism is recognized as the removal of the natural resources belonging to countries of the Global South by a Global Northern country such as:

A) the US
B) Britain
C) Germany
D) all of the above

Question 6

Anzaldúa reminds us of the micro, meso, macro, and global struggles of Mexicans who were:

A) deracinated
B) disemboweled
C) dispossessed
D) all of the above

Question 7

Anzaldúa describes the multi-natured profanity Mexicans faced regarding their rights to their sacred burial grounds that:

A) disallowed a husband and wife from being buried next to each other
B) barred access to their chained and padlocked burial ground
C) threatened them with being shot as trespassers
D) all of the above

Question 8

Legal and illegal border crossing, as Anzaldúa informs, is caused by:

A) maquiladora work, the exploited labor of young Mexican women whose unattended children tend to end up in gangs
B) the devalued peso coupled with rampant unemployment
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 9

Pun's descriptive account of the Chinese assembly line informs on how the women workers:

A) resisted becoming mindless human beings
B) found ways to support each other
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 10

Pun makes an implicit argument for women who were aware of:

A) their power
B) class-consciousness
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 11

The rules and regulations of Meteor, the factory where Pun worked, reinforced:

A) micro, meso, and macro behaviors
B) gender hierarchy
C) gendered division of labor
D) all of the above

Question 12

Schurr's focus on reproductive labor examines how the politics of colonial/post-colonial economic structures continue to dictate:

A) the outsourcing of surrogacy to the Global South by the Global North
B) the geo-stratified forms of reproductions
C) some subtleties vis-à-vis Global North-South inequalities
D) all of the above

Question 13

Schurr's contextualization of reproductive labor makes problematic any simplistic perspective of the global fertility market being driven by:

A) altruism
B) novelty
C) preferences for white donors
D) all of the above

Question 14

Schurr calls for a deeper understanding of all the nuances that influence _____ women's contextual "reproductive biographies."

A) cultural
B) legal
C) political and economic
D) all of the above

Question 15

Birss calls awareness to environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) who have been _____ simply for working to protect indigenous community's territory.

A) criminalized
B) murdered
C) falsely accused
D) all of the above

Question 16

Birss informs on how the judicial system has been weaponized to _____ EHRDs.

A) harass
B) silence
C) intimidate
D) all of the above

Question 17

Birss uses Lolita Chávez as an example of an activist who has dealt with:

A) death threats
B) smear campaigns
C) both "a" and "b"
D) neither "a" nor "b"

Question 18

Graham and Sengupta are desirous of an Internet that reflects more content from:

A) Asia
B) Africa
C) Latin America
D) all of the above

Question 19

Graham and Sengupta's campaign titled, Whose Knowledge? is calling attention to the historical privileging of _____ bodies of knowledge

A) White
B) male
C) European
D) all of the above

Question 20

By implication, Graham and Sengupta are alarmed that if the knowledge-producing power of the Internet remains unchanged then humanity is at risk of becoming _____ its full human capacity.

A) under-informed of
B) underrepresented of
C) under-engaged with
D) all of the above

Question 21

Who have been most impacted by the international gendered division of labor and how so?

Question 22

Who are the leading beneficiaries of globalization linked to neocolonialism and how?

Question 23

Anzaldúa describes the origins of a hybrid people and fuses the results of this hybridization by using both languages throughout her essay. How did this blend of English and Spanish (also known as translanguaging or code-meshing) affect your reading? Do you think that Anzaldúa intends to force readers to imagine what it is like for Mexicans who must continue to bridge the worlds of the Global North and Global South? For what purpose?

Question 24

Compare and contrast Pun's description of 19 January 1995 with one of your own days as a college student.

Question 25

Schurr's research reveals that Israeli, Mexican, Russian, and Indian surrogates all participate in this labor for different reasons. First, create a Venn diagram that shows distinct and overlapping causes for participation. Then, write an analysis that explains how the politics of neocolonialism controls this international gendered phenomenon.

Question 26

Birss quotes Gustavo Castro who states: "At the end of the day resistance is an ethical struggle." Is there a condition on your college campus, local community, or broader society that calls for resistance but you fear that resistance is futile? Describe the condition and why, futile or not, ethical demands must prevail.

Question 27

While Graham and Sengupta's call for an Internet that more accurately reflects the world's diverse population, what are some of the impediments to making this call become a reality? What conditions continue to foster racial, gender, and ethnic re-stratification of Western hegemony?