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Answer the following question. Book reference: Rothenberg, Paula S. (2020). Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study – 11th ed. Worth Publishers: New York, N.Y. ISBN: 978-1- 319-14365-7

Week Three Study Guide Pages 119 through 183

_____ 1. Ta-Nehisi Coats defines _______________ in the textbook as the need to

ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them. a. prejudice c. bigotry b. discrimination d. racism

_____ 2. Ian Haney Löpez claims that after the Civil War forced slavery to end, the

Thirteenth Amendment allowed slavery to continue under the name: a. prisoner rental. c. inmate lending. b. convict leasing. d. indentured servitude.

_____ 3. Ian Haney Löpez cites research in the field of race studies suggest that the

key to avoiding racial discrimination is by: a. focused courtesy. c. determined care. b. resolute devotion. d. purposeful attention.

_____ 4. Which of the following is one of the four central frames of color-blind racism according to the 1997 Survey of College Students and the 1998 Detroit Area Study? a. Intangible Tolerance c. Colonization of Origin b. Citizenship d. Minimization of Racism

_____ 5. According to Bonilla-Silva, what have become the main rhetorical weapons to justify contemporary racial inequality? a. moderation and individualism c. liberalism and humanism b. acceptance and secularism d. tolerance and intellectualism

_____6. According to Bonilla-Silva, the word “___________” or the phrase “That’s the way it is” is often interjected when whites use this frame to normalize events or actions that could otherwise be interpreted as racially motivated. a. “normal” c. “natural” b. “innate” d. “expected”

_____ 7. According to Bonilla-Silva, modern racial ideology has biologized blacks’

presumed cultural practices (i.e., presented them as ________ features) and used that as the rationale for explaining racial inequality. a. fixed c. set b. predetermined d. permanent

_____ 8. According to Bonilla-Silva, whites and blacks minimized racism and believed

that discrimination is still a problem in America, they: a. argue its prominence. c. quarrel that it is only trivial. b. dispute its salience. d. believe it is only internalized.

_____9. Angelo N. Ancheta, in reviewing Gong Lum v. Rice, a 1927 case before the United States Supreme Court, summarized by writing, “In the eyes of the Supreme Court, yellow equaled black, and:” a. “both were suspect.” c. “both were considered nonwhite.” b. “were anything but white.” d. “neither equaled white.”

_____10. According to Angelo N. Ancheta, the most notorious episode of recent anti-

Asian violence was the killing of Vincent Chin in 1982 in Detroit. Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, two white automobile factory works, blamed Chin for the loss of jobs in the automobile industry. They killed Chin with a baseball bat. How long did Ebens and Nitz spend in prison for killing Chin? a. no prison time c. six months’ probation b. three years d. a life sentence

_____11. Angelo N. Ancheta writes that one theme is the importance of racial

categorizing in anti-Asian violence. Ancheta claims that perpetrators often make what race-based generalization? a. “Asians are taking our jobs.” c. “Asians do not belong here.” b. “All Asians look alike.” d. “All Asians need to go home.”

_____12. Evelyn Alsultany describes her background with what words?

a. “My father is French, and my mother is Iraqi.” b. “My father is Russian, and my mother is Arab.” c. “My father is European, and my mother is Israeli.” d. “My father is Iraqi, and my mother is Cuban.”

_____13. Evelyn Alsultany shares an experience she had when waiting alongside a man for the NYC subway. She summarized that the man assumes that Arab plus Muslim equals? a. terrorist tendencies c. female submission b. male superiority d. arranged marriage

_____14. Alsultany writes, “My body becomes marked with meaning as I enter public space. My identity fractures as I experience differing dislocations in multiple contexts. Sometimes people ________ me, sometimes they identify with me.” a. otherize c. ostracize b. criticize d. categorize

_____15. Joan L. Griscom gives the definition of “Ableism” as discrimination against:

a. autistic people. c. people of foreign descent. b. albino people. d. disabled people.

_____16. According to Suzanne Pharr, part of the way sexism stays in place is the societal promise of survival, false and unfulfilled as it is, that women will not suffer violence if: a. we stand up for ourselves. c. we never act afraid. b. we attach ourselves to a man. d. we never let them see us sweat.

_____17. At what point in human development does Suzanne Pharr suggest that the

full force of society’s pressure to conform to heterosexuality and prepare for marriage comes? a. in early childhood c. during the mid-teens b. at puberty d. at young adulthood

_____18. According to Gregory Mantsios, the late political theorist/activist Michael

Harrington once commented, a. “Money is like a sixth sense, without which you cannot make complete

use of the other five.” b. “If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” c. “There is a fine line between a desire to have power for

accomplishment and desire to have power for domination.” d. “America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”

_____19. According to Gregory Mantsios, __________ accurately predicts chances for

survival, educational achievement, and economic success. a. race c. class b. gender d. sexual orientation

_____20. Gregory Mantsios writes that being female and being nonwhite are attributes

in our society that increase the chances of: a. wealth and increased social standing. b. unemployment and being ostracized. c. poverty and the lower-class standing. d. needing to depend upon rich people to stay afloat.