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Outlaws
100

A racist, xenophobic metaphor designed to depict the peoples of this region as a threat to Western civilization

What is Yellow Peril

100

This case set limits on women's work days based on biological determinism

What is Muller v. Oregon?

100

This theorist formulated the social stratification of gender by writing "men are A, women are -A"

Who is Judith Lorber

100

According to Dr. King, the Collection of the facts, Negotiation, Self-purification, and Direct action are  all components of

What is Non Violent Direct Action?

100

Who said "Justice delayed is justice denied"

Who is Dr. King?

200

The way biology (ie. Genitalia) determines one’s gender and by extension their sexual orientation. This places each subject within the framework of power


What is biological determinism

200

This President believed he could end a strike by using the military to do their job in 1970

Who President Nixon?

200

This theory urges for more dynamic conversations about identity that consider how multiple oppressive logics and systems overlap and mutually inform one another.

What is intersectionality

200

An academic field that rejects heteronormativity is____

What is queer theory?

200

This theorist asserted "Systems often works in ways that don't reflect people's experiences and motives"

Who is Allan Johnson?

300

The overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social and political problems

What is the Prison Industrial Complex

300

in 1944, 3 students were denied enrollment at the 17th street school in Orange County, CA. The rallying of the community lead to the first class action lawsuit against segregation laws called

What is Mendez v. Westminster?

300

Education, Ideology, stereotypes, and the media are examples of _____ in Omi and Winant's theory of Racial Formation

What is Cultural Representation?

300

In more current conversations about gender, someone who refuses the gender binary all together is often referred to as _______________. They identify with neither the category of men nor of women as stable gender identities.

What is nonbinary?

300

Who said "it is a movement that some call feminist but should be called humanist"

Who is Gloria Steinem?

400

a concept of fair and just treatment between the individual and a society. 

It involves the equitable distributions of wealth, opportunities for personal/social mobility, access to resources and privilege.

What is social justice?

400

The amount of attention and mass of followers as a result of 4 Black men sitting at a white lunch counter in Jan. 1960 led to the founding of this major organization during the Civil Rights Movement 

What Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?

400

The 4 stages in masculine scripts are: No Sissy Stuff" "Be a Big Wheel" "____" "Give em Hell"

What is Be a Sturdy Oak?

400

Because social movements tend to reinforce hierarchies, social movements exhibit_____towards leadership

What is skepticism?

400

Who told Caesar Chavez "Strike now or we will break your strike"

Who is Larry Itliong?

500

The elaboration of alternate, often subordinate, ideologies that critique and challenge dominate ideologies

What is Counter-hegemony?

500

In 2011, students from the Tucson Unified School District testified at the School Board attempting to save their Ethnic Studies Courses. The Board members questioned the instructors over the use of one book which cited many Leftist thinkers (Stalin, Mao, etc.). The name of this book is_____

What is Pedagogy of the Oppressed?

500

This philosopher tells us that _____freedom, implies the language of inalienable rights

What is Negative?

500

Civil disobedience comprises of two factors, if protesters are willing to accept legal punishment for breaking the law, they are exhibiting______

What is Conscientiousness?

500

This activist's house was affectionately called "Grand Central Station" because it served as a hub for Black Power meetings

Who is Yuri Kochiyama?