Definitions
Major Themes from Readings
Major Quotes from Readings
Major Themes from Videos
Miscellaneous
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A system of methods used in a particular area of study or activity.
Methodology
100
According to Caughey, life ways are a way of life.
True
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“American” may at first seem to refer simply to U.S. citizens, but the context of the sentence strongly implies a consensual understanding of shared values, not just shared passports; the literal and figurative meanings tend to collapse into each other. The self-evidence of “America” is thus troubled from the start by multiple ambiguities about the extent of the territory it delineates, as well as about its deeper connotations.
Kristen Silva Gruesz “America" Page 1
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In the video, intersectionality and feminism was compared to _______.
pizza
100
Culture is a(n) _________ way of life.
communal
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Ones ability to understand their identity/point of view within the power hierarchy
Positionality
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Yúdice believe that culture does not narrate a neat and linear history, but is both an experience and an idea of intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic agents
True
200
"It engages arguments about the rigidity of intersectional categories, its limited use as an analytical con- struct, its relationship to identity studies, and claims that it privileges race and presumes a hierarchy of oppressions."
B. T. Dill Introduction from Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice. Rutgers University Press. Page 18
200
Who were the "cheese pizzas," in the video?
The majority
200
Give one example for each three uses of contemporary culture.
An example of intellectual use is art. An example of spiritual use is religion. An example of aesthetic use is museums.
300
The method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.
Pedagogy
300
B. T. Dill argues that identity studies, privileges in race, and the hierarchy of oppression are not related
False, they are connected.
300
"Ordinary life is not as simple and natural as it seems, but rather a problematic, complex process of exploration and explanation"
Caughey “The Ethnography of Everyday Life: Theories and Methods for American Culture Studies.” Page 222
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Who were the "deluxe pizzas," in the video?
The minority
300
America is both a(n) _______ and a geographical location.
idea, concept, etc.
400
The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures.
Ethnography
400
Crenshaw believes that we must ___________ modes (race, class, gender, and sexuality) of discrimination.
demarginalize
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"Culture is the structured set or pattern of behavior, beliefs, traditions, symbols, and practices, the means by which humans communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge and attitude toward life.”
George Yúdice “Culture" Page 2
400
What was the overall argument of the video, "On Intersectionality in Feminism and Pizza"
The majority is praised, when they cultivate and appropriate minorities' traits, ideas, values, etc. However, when the minority do the same activities, they are shamed.
400
According to Kristen Silva Gruesz America is a notion of what?
America is a notion of discovery, modernity, and progress.
500
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Intersectionality
500
Give an example of the "But for" discrimination Crenshaw referred to, on page 44 of her reading.
For example, if I were a black man a "but for' disadvantage I could recognize is “If it wasn’t for my race, but for, I could have achieved _______."
500
"I want to examine how this tendency is perpetuated by a single-axis framework that is dominant in anti-discrimination law and that is also reflected in feminist theory and anti-racist politics."
Kimberle Crenshaw "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics" Page 39
500
What did the three videos about identity all have in common?
All three speakers agreed that their identity was what made them both accepted and rejected, within certain communities.
500
Intersectionality can be viewed as...
a four-way intersection that you/others are in the middle of
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