Racial Formations
Institutional Racism
Intersectionality
Mixed-Race Realities
Social Movements
100
Identify the author of this quote: “The meaning of race is defined and contested throughout society, in both collective action and personal practice. In the process, racial categories themselves are formed, transformed, destroyed, and reformed. We use the term ‘racial formation’ to refer to the process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings.”
Michael Omi and Howard Winant
100
Identify the author of this quote: “Collective exercises of power that relentlessly channel rewards, resources, and opportunities from one group to another will not appear ‘racist’ from this perspective, because they rarely announce their intention to discriminate [. . .]. Yet they nonetheless give racial identities their sinister social meaning by giving people from different races vastly different life chances.”
George Lipsitz
100
Who defined intersectionality as “the need to take into account multiple grounds of identity when considering how the social world is constructed”?
Kimberle Crenshaw
100
Identify the author of this quote: “I look at my face. The face an echo of my mom’s features, only my brown eyes and light-brown skin make me a negative of her image.”
Ana-Maurine Lara…also accept “Maria”
100
Identify the author of this quote: “Some of the pitfalls and potentials ascribed here to transcolonial/transnational, national, and colonial/imperial kinship narratives provide a compass for contemporary efforts to build political solidarity among Antillean populations. Afro-diasporic communities, and all those we may consider to be our people”
Alai Reyes-Santos
200
According to Nicholas De Genova, in the early 21st century, what group of people have been increasingly racialized in the United States as being almost exclusively “brown” or “Arab” and stereotyped as “terrorists”?
Muslims
200
What expansive institution does Angela Davis address in her article?
Prison-Industrial Complex (Criminal Justice System)
200
How does Teves’s article demonstrate intersectionality as a methodological approach? What additional understanding/knowledge is gained about the subject from this approach?
Race, ethnicity, colonialism, indigeneity, gender, etc
200
Summarize the similarities and differences between the meanings and value of “whiteness” in the United States and Latin American countries?
Differing views on what it means to be “white,” issues of white privilege, myth of colorblindness v. myth of racial democracy, etc
200
Teves’s article discusses the emergence and appropriation of what type of music among native Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as a form of resistance and solidarity with other people of color in the U.S.?
Hip Hop
300
Briefly explain why the racial category of “Latino” is a construction that is unique to the United States, at least in contrast to other parts of the Americas.
Changes in migration post-1965, different racial formations and categories among Latin American countries, etc
300
Within the broader history of Native Americans colonial relationship with the United States government, Brian Klopotek and his co-authors describe the suffering and lack of government response following Hurricane Katrina as “_________ trauma” for the Tunica-Biloxi people.
"Ordinary Trauma"
300
How does Fujiwara’s article demonstrate intersectionality as a methodological approach? What additional understanding/knowledge is gained about the subject from this approach?
Race, class, gender, immigration/refugee status, etc
300
“Maria” is described as being biracial/mixed-race in “Halfie,” what is her ethnic and racial background specifically (think of her parents)?
Black/Dominican and White/American
300
Describe at least one way that the short story “Halfie” demonstrates the difficulties of building solidarity across ethnic (or otherwise intersectional) differences?
Consider the author and Angel? Author and her mom?
400
Both Angela Davis and the film “13th" give evidence of how “criminality” has been racialized in the United States since at least the nineteenth century, especially when it comes to racial constructions of “blackness.” Give one historical example.
Vagrancy and labor laws after Civil War, the film “Birth of a Nation,” suburbanization and “urban problems,” War on Drugs, etc
400
What specific institutional program is the central focus of Lynn Fujiwara’s article on SE Asian refugees living in the United States?
Federal Welfare (1996 reform)
400
How does Reyes-Santos’s article demonstrate intersectionality as a methodological approach? What additional understanding/knowledge is gained about the subject from this approach?
Race, ethnicity, mixed-race identities, class, gender, etc
400
Briefly describe how the idea of “blood quantum” has been problematic for mixed-race realities in Hawaii?
Long history of intermarriage; curtailment of identity; limits on access to land
400
In Lynn Fujiwara’s article, how did SE Asian refugees attempt to build a broad coalition to agitate for change? What broader groups or issues did they engage with to build their coalition?
"Immigrant Rights are Human Rights"
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