Exam Questions Chapter 6 Race Class and Gender Norms

Chapter 6 Test Bank Questions

Long Answer

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 on pp. 167-168)

2. Define the term “model minority.” How does this term legitimize the oppression of other people of color in American society? (Answer on p. 165)

3. Why working-class women and men are often portrayed in negative images in American society and culture which characterize them as disadvantaged? (Answer on pp. 162-163)

4. Why does feminist scholar Peggy McIntosh describe the notion of white privilege as an “invisible package of unearned assets?” (Answer on pp. 185-186)

5. How does the legacy of past discrimination for a group affect their future generations? (Answer on pp. 184-185)

6. Define the term ethnic group. What are the salient differences between an “ethnic group” and a racial group? (Answer on pp. 159-160)

7. What economic and social barriers make it difficult for many Black fathers to contribute to and enjoy their responsibilities as fathers? (Answer on p. 171)

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? (Answer on pp. 175-176)

9. How do multiracial people contest the authenticity of race as a social construction? (Answer on p. 183)

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? (Answer on pp. 161-162)

Short Answer

1. Why do some multiracial people describe themselves as having a “blended” or “border” identity? (Answer on p. 183)

2. What factors caused the creation of a “bamboo ceiling” for Asian Americans in the United States? (Answer on p. 165)

3. Explain why the story of Pocahontas (Matoaka) is the personification of the American frontier? (Answer on pp. 180-181)

4. How are the contemporary media representations of African American women rooted in the history of slavery and post slavery? (Answer on pp. 171-172)

5. Explain how anti-immigrant groups use the issue of Latina reproduction to instill public fear about the changing demographics in contemporary American society? (Answer on p. 176)

6. Why are the stereotypes of Native American men based on a pseudo-history closely aligned to illusions than reality? (Answer on pp. 181-182)

7. Explain how striking a “cool pose” by African American men represent a coping strategy when confronting prejudice? (Answer on p. 173)

8. Why have some scholars abandoned the traditional “race concept” in favor of adopting the notion of racialization? (Answer on pp. 158-159)

9. Why La Malinche/Malinalli exemplifies a quintessential symbol within Latina/o and Chicana/o cultures? (Answer on p. 177)

10. Explain why there has been a rise in the number of Americans identifying as multiracial between the 2000 and 2010 Census? (Answer on pp. 182-183)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What television show about working-class people did not feature a stereotypical working-class male character? (B is correct. Answer on pp. 171-172)

a. The King of Queens

b. The Real Housewives of Atlanta

c. The Simpsons

d. The Honeymooners

e. All in the Family

2. Who created the term “The Latino Threat Narrative”? (D is correct. Answer on pp. 174-175)

a. G. Miguel Arciniega

b. José Torres

c. Gloria Anzaldúa

d. Leo Chávez

e. Carmen Tafolla

3. What percentage of Native Americans live in poverty in the United States? (A is correct. Answer on p. 178)

a. 27

b. 20

c. 48

d. 51

e. 32

4. Which group did Benjamin Franklin described in 1751 as an alien people incapable of adopting the English language? (E is correct. Answer on pp. 153-154)

a. African slaves

b. The Dutch

c. Native Americans

d. Spaniards

e. Germans

5. Who wrote the book Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman? (C is correct. Answer on p. 167)

a. Audre Lorde

b. Patricia Hill Collins

c. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

d. Oprah Winfrey

e. bell hooks

6. What year was the Chinese Exclusion Act decreed? (A is correct. Answer on` p. 166)

a. 1882

b. 1910

c. 1880

d. 1919

e. 1895

7. What percentage of the U.S. population controls 90 percent of the nation’s wealth? (D is correct. Answer on p. 162)

a. 6

b. 10

c. 8

d. 20

e. 7

8. What is the Love Jones cohort named after? (B is correct. Answer on p. 168)

a. A romance novel

b. A romantic comedy film

c. A memoir

d. A video game

e. A restaurant

9. Which celebrity embodies the popular example of a “hot Latina”? (E is correct. Answer on p. 176)

a. Rosario Dawson

b. Eva Mendes

c. Sandra Cisneros

d. America Ferrera

e. Sofia Vergara

10. Which Native American writer won the 2012 National Book Award for the novel The Round House? (C is correct. Answer on p. 179)

a. Sherman Alexie

b. Leslie Marmon Silko

c. Louise Erdrich

d. Gerald Vizenor

e. Paula Gunn Allen

11. Which one of the following is an unnoticed positive trait of machismo? (A is correct. Answer on p. 175)

a. Loyalty

b. Agreeable

c. Tolerant

d. Calmness

e. Empathy

12. Who was the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation? (B is correct. Answer on p. 181)

a. Anna Prieto Sandoval

b. Wilma Mankiller

c. Alyce Spotted Bear

d. Marie Cox

e. Amanda Blackhorse

13. Who were deported from the United States during the 1930s and 1940s? (D is correct. Answer on pp. 174-175)

a. Filipinos

b. Guatemalans

c. Jamaicans

d. Mexicans and Mexican Americans

e. Haitians

14. How many Japanese and Japanese Americans were detained in internment camps in the United States during World War II? (A is correct. Answer on p. 166)

a. 120,000

b. 90,000

c. 150,000

d. 175,000

e. 136,000

15. Who stated that African American women are often “‘unseen’ in national discussions of ‘racial profiling, police brutality and, lethal force’”? (C is correct. Answer on p. 170)

a. Lawrence Thomas

b. Karen Dugger

c. Andrea Ritchie

d. Robert Staples

e. Julianne Malveaux

16. What does the Spanish word caballero mean in English? (E is correct. Answer on p. 176)

a. Soccer Player

b. Minister

c. Trainer

d. Knight

e. Horseman

17. How did the wealth of American families in the bottom 50 percent change between 1989 and 2013? (D is correct. Answer on pp. 161-162)

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.

18. Who made this statement, “America is witnessing a kind of renaissance of working-class culture?” (B is correct. Answer on p. 163)

a. Norma Burgess

b. Matthew Desmong

c. Michelle Obama

d. Janell Hobson

e. Taquesha Brannon

19. Which Native American tribe has a net worth of about 4 billion dollars? (E is correct. Answer on p. 179)

a. The Navajo Nation

b. The Cayuga Nation

c. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona

d. The Mississippi Choctaw

e. The Southern Ute

20. What percentage of Black students complete school in 6 years? (D is correct. Answer on 167)

a. 30

b. 22

c. 34

d. 46

e. 27

21. Who coined the term “strategic essentialism”? (D is correct. Answer on p. 159)

a. Mae Ngai

b. Michelle Wallace

c. Cheryl Woods-Giscombé

d. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

e. Philip Cohen

22. Which word describes the concept of marianismo? (B is correct. Answer on p. 176)

a. Independent

b. Humble

c. Bold

d. Self-assured

e. Conceited

24. In the U.S. immigration reform of the 1920s, which group was placed at the bottom of its hierarchy of desirable immigrants? (E is correct. Answer on p. 174)

a. Western Europeans

b. Canadians

c. Northern Europeans

d. Australians

e. Latin Americans

25. What is one of the most popular media representations of Native American women? (C is correct. Answer on p. 180)

a. Virgin

b. Homemaker

c. Princess

d. Warrior

e. Caretaker

True or False Questions

1. In the past 25 years, no new tribal colleges have opened in the United States. (False. Answer on p. 178)

2. In 2017, two-thirds of all Latinas/os were born in the United States. (True. Answer on p. 173)

3. The writer Cherríe Moraga associated the term vendidas with heterosexism. (True. Answer on p. 176)

4. There is great dissimilarity between the percentage of Blacks and Whites who enter college. (False. Answer on p. 167)

5. In 2016 Asian Americans held only 3.1 percent of seats on Fortune 500 corporate boards. (True. Answer on p. 165)

6. Reality shows that feature working-class men are not very popular. (False. Answer on p. 163)

7. The process of creating racial and ethnic distinctions does not result in othering people. (False. Answer on pp. 160-161)

8. 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. (True. Answer on p. 155)

9. In his 1751 essay, Benjamin Franklin expressed his beliefs in racial superiority. (True. Answer on p. 153)

10. Pocahontas died a widow of an English tobacco planter in Jamestown in 1617. (False. Answer on p. 181)