Globalization
Race and Ethnicity
Sushi: the Global Catch
Race: the Power of an Illusion
The Land of Open Graves
100

"intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa."

Globalization (according to Manfred Steger)

100

A (flawed) attempt to classify humans on the basis of physical appearance.

Race

100

Demand for this delicacy has led to dramatic declines in Blue Fin tuna populations

Sushi

100

One hypothesis for why we tend to find lighter skin (lower amounts of melanin) in Northern latitudes has to do with the need to produce this vitamin.

Vitamin D

100

The type of violence that is often impersonal, experienced as a result of (e.g.) policy

Structural 

200

The flow of people across borders

"Ethnoscape"

Bonus! According to who(m?)

Bonus Bonus! Name another "scape"

200

Term that describes how physical differences (e.g. in skin pigmentation) vary gradually across geographic space.

Cline (clinal variation)

200

Blue Fin tuna sit at the top of this

The trophic system

200

From the Blue Hills of Virginia, this group of people were referred to as "Mongrel Virginians," because of their inability to accurately classified, to pass for white, and were described by the leader of the American Eugenics movements as having "a combination of the worst racial traits, a badly put together people."

"The WIN Tribe"

200

The name of the policy enacted to deter migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border in the 1990s

"Prevention Through Deterrence" 

Bonus - under which president was PTD enacted?

(Should also be able to discuss the key aspects of PTD) 

300

the adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms

glocalization!

Bonus! Can you give an example?

300

The tendency of people of mixed racial heritage to be assigned to the racial category that is less privileged/more marginalized 

Hypodescent!

Bonus - what "rule" is this related to?

Bonus bonus - which elected official did we discuss in relation to hypodescent? (hint: his mom was an anthropologist!)

300

One of the fastest growing markets for sushi is found in this country

China

300

Any two individuals within any so-called "race" may be as __________ from each other as they are from any individual in another so-called "race."

Different!

(85% of all the variation among human beings is between any two individuals within a local population)

300

Describes the violence inflicted onto people at the U.S.-Mexico Border after death

Necroviolence

400

"embodied dispositions that arise from one’s enculturation in a specific social setting."

Habitus! 

Bonus - According to who(m?)

400

This act was instrumental in both, building up the middle class, and within about a decade of being introduced, redefining the boundaries surrounding whiteness.

Serviceman's Readjustment Act of of 1944 (aka: Montogomery GI Bill)

Bonus! Which group was not included in this redefinition?

400

At the time of this documentary (2011) a single Blue Fin tuna was auctioned from Tsukiji Market in Tokyo for  this record-breaking amount

$400,000

Bonus! Anyone know what the record is now?

400

In urban environments of the 1930s, American basketball was dominated by players from this ethnic category

Jewish people

400

Method used by De Leon to gain insight into use of space by migrants in the Sonoran Desert

Archaeology of the Contemporary

500

When countries accept loans from these organizations, they often come with strings attached, (e.g. privatization of infrastructure, spending less on education and healthcare).

the IMF and the World Bank

Bonus - What's IMF stand for?!

Bonus bonus - In what country did an entire city have their water supply crumble under these strings? 

500

The segment of Japanese society that are socially marginalized 

Burakumin

Bonus: from what kinds of occupation are Burakumin people descended?

500

Because they're big, fast, and expensive, one person interviewed described Blue Fin Tuna as the ______ of the ocean.

Porsche

500

Biological anthropologist at Howard University who examined Jesse Owens and argued "There is not one, single, physical feature, including skin color, which all our Negro champions have in common which would identify them as Negro."

Montague Cobb

500

Term clinical psychologists use to describe the pain and suffering experienced as result of having a loved one disappear

Ambiguous Loss

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