Race
A measurable gradient in a single characteristic of a species across its geographical range.
Cline
An autonomous regional structure of political and military rule with a centralized government that create and enforce law.
State
Will also accept "Nation-State" A political entity, located within a geographical territory, where a population shares a sense of culture, ancestry, and destiny as a people.
This term comes from the German word “Volk” describing the ”culture of a people.”
Folk
The study of how people make sense of music and integrate it into their social lives.
Ethnomusicology
What fast food corporation has the largest global sales?
McDonalds
Pressure placed on minority groups to adopt the customs and traditions of the dominant culture.
Assimilation
The concept of ethnic assimilation popularized through a 1908 play.
“The Melting Pot”
The study of sign and symbols, especially the relations between signs and people's interpretations
Semiotics
In West Africa, this is the name of a person who is an official keeper of cultural memory through story and song.
Griot
This food product was crafted into elaborate table sculptures as a status symbol by European nobility.
Sugar
Genetic traits that are inherited independently, rather than bundled together are called ____________.
Non-concordant
In his 1983 work "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism," Benedict Anderson, argues that what invention created the conditions for a new sense of shared culture and ethnicity in Europe.
The Printing Press
Associated with French literary critic, Jaques Derrida, this is an analytical method used to conduct a symbolic analysis of media to examine the hidden logic that may be buried within the discourse.
Deconstruction
The term used to describe complex beats that come together through multi-layered drumming and percussion in African and other world musics
Polyrhythmic Syncopation
Name one of the top three most important spices that drove the silk road trade in Europe.
•Pepper
•Cinnamon
•Nutmeg
The 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled that the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place in education and that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Brown Vs Board of Education
This agreement was signed in 1998 that ended 30 years of conflict known as "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland
Good Friday Agreement
The idea that meanings and connections in popular culture is not determined by any one narrative, but is a product of the sum total of all of the ideas, images, myths, and symbols that we are exposed to in our lifetimes.
Intertextuality
The earliest archaeological record of musical instruments including bone flutes is approximately how old?
40,000 years
Name one of the two countries in which coffee is thought to have originated.
Ethiopia or Yemen
The term originally coined by sociologist Kimberly Crenshaw to refer to the ways that various identities including race, class, gender, and sexual orientation create overlapping and multilayered experiences in society.
Intersectionality
The gradual emergence of a new, distinct ethnic identity in response to changing social circumstances.
Ethnogenesis
Considered the founder of British Cultural Studies, this scholar, originally from Jamaica, helped to establish the Birmingham University Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Stuart Hall
The founder of Afro-Beat music in Nigeria and leader of an opposition political party (Movement of the People) who experienced police and Army brutality.
Fela Kuti
This food crop comprises the largest share of the U.S. diet.
Corn