Media Studies/Sociology
Minstrelsy-Harlem Renaissance
Civil Rights Movement
4 Waves of Feminism
Chicano & Disability Rights
100

John Fiske explained that people ripping holes in their jeans in order to create new semiotic meaning is an example of what process?  

Excorporation

100

T.D. Rice is known as the "Father of Minstrelsy" because of his creation of which notorious character? 

Jim Crow

100
MLK wrote this powerful defense of civil disobedience in 1963 while imprisoned in Alabama. 

Letter from Birmingham Jail

100

Beginning at the Seneca Falls Convention, the 1st Wave of Feminism is usually referred to by what name? 

Women's Suffrage Movement

100

This San Diego location became a public display of Chicano art after it was occupied by protestors demanding the construction of a community park. 

Chicano Park

200

Jazz music being played on mainstream radio and becoming widely commercialized is an example of what process? 

Incorporation

200

This style of music originated amongst African Americans in the Mississippi Delta region and lyrically depicted the hardships of life in the segregated South. 

The Blues

200

Sheriff Bull Connor used attack dogs and water hoses against peaceful youth protestors during this event in 1963. 

Children's Crusade (Birmingham Campaign)

200

This 1990s musical movement exemplified the beliefs of 3rd Wave Feminism. 

Riot Grrl

200

This woman was a counselor at Camp Jened and a founder of Disability in Action. She is considered the "Mother" of the Disability Rights Movement. 

Judy Heumann

300

This is a one-sided relationship that someone builds with a figure in media (be they fictional or real). Psychologically speaking, this can "stand in" for a real relationship. 

Parasocial Relationship

300

This 1939 Billie Holiday song shed light on the horrors of lynching and was banned on many radio stations. TIME Magazine later called it "the most important song of the 20th Century." 

"Strange Fruit"

300

This man was the NAACP's lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case. He later became America's first Black Supreme Court justice. 

Thurgood Marshall

300

This consciousness-raising group was ahead of their time in their calls for more intersectional thinking in the Women's Liberation Movement. 

Combahee River Collective

300

The Disability Rights Movement stressed this idea which claimed that we should not see people with disabilities as "sick" but should instead investigate how society can better make space for them. 

Social Model of Disability 

400

This sociological theory states that sustained, authentic contact with someone from an outgroup will reduce prejudice towards that group. 

Contact Hypothesis

400

Circuses and World's Fairs often featured this attraction, where people from "exotic" cultures were put on display in a dehumanizing fashion. These attractions are sometimes called "human zoos." 

Ethnological Congress

400

In an article we read on music in the Civil Rights Movement, historian T.V. Reed claimed that the music of the movement introduced many to this idea which was a common theme in the Black church. 

Liberation Theology

400

This woman made history when she became the first Black woman elected to Congress in 1968. She made further history by being the first woman to run for President on a major party ticket in 1972. 

Shirley Chisholm

400

Cesar Chavez became the public face of the Delano Grape Strike, but this woman was just as important in planning and coordinating the movement even though she often doesn't get as much credit. 

Dolores Huerta

500

We read a study about the TV show Will & Grace which showed that viewers of the show showed reduced prejudice towards gay men. This was due to what sociological phenomenon? 

Parasocial Contact Hypothesis

500

This San Diego venue was a prominent stop on the Chitlin' Circuit and earned San Diego the nickname "Harlem of the West." 

Douglas Hotel/Creole Palace

500

This man was a leader of SNCC who coined the term "Black Power."

Stokely Carmichael 

500

This advocate for women's suffrage was also a founding member of the NAACP. 

Ida B. Wells

500

This law guarantees access to public education for any child with a disability. (I want the full title, not just the acronym!) 

Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act