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Midterms Pt. 3 Flashcards

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What are some example of imperialism in our modern history?

A

Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guwam, Martial Islands

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What is the Banana Republic?

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central american Republic in which U.S. (dole) grow bananas, reduced the types of bananas grow

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Nigerian economist Ngozi Okongo-Iweala said in “Rising Africa” that Africa should:

a) invest in infrastructure
b) increase government transparency
c) educate girls
d) none of the above
e) all of the above

A

all of the above

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4
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______ ________ ______ was a West African legal scholar.

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Anton Wilhelm Arvo

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What is social construction?

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  • “created” by people within a culture or soecity
  • it exists because people agree it exists
  • society has the power to deconstruct
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6
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The meaning of race is ________ and ________ throughout society in both collective action and individual practice

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defined

contested

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The meaning of race is defined and contested throughout society in both _________ ______ and __________ _______

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collective action

individual practice

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8
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What is prejudice?

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prejudgement by an individual or group (usually negative) which results in negative behavior towards an individual or group

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Is this ethnicity or race: cultural identity

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ethnicity

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10
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Is this ethnicity or race: where are you from

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ethnicity

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Is this ethnicity or race: broad generalization

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ethnicity

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Is this ethnicity or race: skin color and particular features

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race

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Is this ethnicity or race: body types

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race

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Is this ethnicity or race: hair

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race

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Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

argued that every culture has intrinsic value

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Von Herder

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Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

debunked the myth of skin color has inherent value

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Beattie

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Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

refuted Hume by stating the wanders of these giant civilizations

A

Beattie

18
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Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

the fact that enslaved Africans would rise through servitude showed their brilliance

A

Beattie

19
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Is this Von Herder, Kant, Beattie, or Hume:

suggested no aestetic value of Africans

A

Kant

20
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Who argued that the “black color of the negro has nothing in it more wonderful than the white, brown, yellow or reddish of other nations”?

A

Von Herder

21
Q

Kant classifies humans by:

a) looks
b) moral feelings
c) both
d) neither

A

both

22
Q

True or False: Billie Holliday was a famous concert singer who received an NAACP award from Eleanor Roosevelt

A

False; it was Marian Anderson

23
Q

___ _______ ___ _____ created a system for typing blood plasma

A

Dr. Charles R. Drew

24
Q

In 1773 Phyllis Wheatley was the 1st Black woman to publish?

A

poetry

25
Q

How is a lotus flower symbolic?

A

1) it grows in mud

2) has cause and effect simultaneously

26
Q

In _____, negro was just removed from the U.S. census

A

2010

27
Q

How many nations are in Africa?

A

54

28
Q

What was Fredrick Douglass’s original name?

A

Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey

29
Q

When and where was Fredrick Douglass born?

A

1817 or 1818; near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland

30
Q

When and where did Fredrick Douglass escape?

A

1838, escaped to New York City, where he married Anna, Murray, a free colored woman

31
Q

During the 1900s which Europeans were the major traders along the Western cost of Africa?

A

Portugese

32
Q

The Arabs, enslaved Africans from which regions?

A

North Africa and East Africa

33
Q

In 1885 Sarah Goode became the 1st Black woman issued a U.S. patient which was for?

A

bed that folded into a cabinet

34
Q

When did Dred Scoott v. Sanford occur, and what was the verdict of that trial?

A

1857; declared enslaved and formerly enslaved Africans were not citizens not guaranteed rights

35
Q

When was the civil war ended?

A

1865

36
Q

When did Plessy v. Ferguson occur, and what was the verdict of that case?

A

1896; legalized seperate but equal accomodations

37
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When did Brown v. Board of Education occur?

A

1954

38
Q

What happened in 1948?

A

Presidential Executive order desegregated the U.S. military

39
Q

When did Casper v. Aaron occur, and what did it accomplish?

A

1958; made states enforce the Brown decision

40
Q

When did the Civil Rights Act occur, and what did it accomplish?

A

1969; outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, or national origin

41
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When did the Voting Rights Act occur, and what did it accomplish?

A

1965; outlawed discriminatory voting practices

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