Chapter 5:Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality

Question 1

definition of gender

Answer 1

a culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women: their “characters,” the roles they play in society, what they represent

Question 2

gender role

Answer 2

conveys the idea that there are certain social expectations and rights associated with being a man or a woman.

Question 3

definition of identity, according to Gillian Rose

Answer 3

‘how we make sense of ourselves’

identities are constructed through experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections

Question 4

a probable reason for differences in appearance in different regions

Answer 4

physical attributes of humans that have developed over time as modern humans spread around the world
Closer to the poles, humans developed lighter skin pigment so that skin could absorb sunlight that bodies could convert into vitamin D during the half of the year when the region received sunlight.
Closer to the equator, humans developed darker skin pigment with higher amounts of melanin, which protects the skin from ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun

Question 5

most residentially segregated metropolitan area for African Americans

Answer 5

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Question 6

Hispanics in NY are mostly composed of

Answer 6

Puerto Ricans and Dominicans

Question 7

ethnicity found in Mexicali

Answer 7

Chinese

Question 8

how do gangs in the US and North Ireland create exclusive territories? How does this affect the cultural landscape?

Answer 8

painting murals and curbs, hanging bunting, graffiti, building colors

Question 9

what is the estimated percentage of the food produced by females in Subsaharan Africa?

Answer 9

70%

Question 10

there has been a global rise in female employment, except in the region of

Answer 10

Asia and eastern Europe

Question 11

dowry deaths in India

Answer 11

in the context of arranged marriages, disputes over the dowry (the price to be paid by the bride’s family to the groom’s father) have led to the death of the bride through brutal punisment (often burned)

Question 12

why have parts orf rural South Africa and Zimbabwe become demographically feminized?

Answer 12

women are left behind to tend the farms and mangage the household economy while men leave rural areas to work in heavy and industry and mines in the cities

Question 13

dowrty death victims

Answer 13

8233 in 2012

Question 14

most of the workers in maquilladoras are

Answer 14

women

Question 15

barrio is the Spanish term for

Answer 15

neighborhood