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Quiz 2 Flashcards

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Miscegenation

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Historical term for interracial marriage

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Nativism

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Favoring certain long term inhabitants over new immigrants

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Individual racism

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Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race

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Institutional racism

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Patterns by which racial inequality is structured through key cultural institutions, policies, and systems

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Ethnic boundary marker

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A practice or belief used to signify who is in a group and who is not (such as food, clothing, language)

Contextually relevant

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Stratification

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Unequal access/distribution of resources including wealth, power, and prestiege

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What is salient/relevant for any of us about our identity changes over time

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ex: after 9/11, people’s identity as Americans changed, “I’m an American first”

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Situational negotiation of identity

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An individual’s self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location

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Ethnic group making project

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Effort to get people to identify ethnically and come together as an ethnic group, band together

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India day parade

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Example of ethnic boundary marker

Identity as Indian most relevant

Shows unity, solidarity, visible power together

Shows political power and leverage

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Rwandan genocide

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Hutu and Tutsi lived in peace until Belgian colonists divides them

The two identities were not relevant until ethnic boundary markers were created (height, head shape)

Hutu group together against Tutsi

Ethnic group making project because Hutu band together as an ethnic group

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Rise of white nationalism is shaped by:

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Economics and stratification

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Imagined community

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Invented sense of connection and shared traditions that underlies identification with a particular ethnic group or nation whose members likely will never all meet

Nations are imagine communities, have sense of membership

Benedict Anderson

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Invented traditions

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Hobsbawm and Ranger

Have common language and infrastructure to keep us connected and shape a national identity

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Shabana Mir and the self disciplining subject

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Informants changes selves based on what people thought of them

Ex: one girl said she was Indian and refused alcohol but asked for pop instead because she didn’t want anybody to know she was Muslim

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Virtual identity vs. real identity

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Perceived as normal until something stigmatizes us

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Separate but equal

Blacks and whites should be segregated

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Brown v Board

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Separate is not equal

Ruled against segregation

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de Jude segregation

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Legal segregation

Made illegal by brow v board

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De facto segregation

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While school segregation may be illegal, it still happens

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Susie Phipps

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One drop of blood rule meant she was considered “colored”

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Hypodescent

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One drop of blood rule

Assignment of children of racially mixed unions to the subordinate group (whichever parent regarded as lowest is how child is identified)

Keep white as an elite status

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Construction of whiteness

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Is cultural

Many groups were not considered white until later in American history

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White privilege

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17th century, privilege awarded to those newly considered white

Goal is to divide and conquer

Did not want slaves banging together

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Ozowa vs US

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Said his skin was as white as those considered white, but was told white means aryan/Caucasian in the US

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US vs Baghat

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Says his people are the original aryans, US says white is what the common person thinks of as white

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Redlining

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Refuse loans to somebody based on where they live being viewed as a poor financial risk

Actual maps outlined based on racial composition

Won’t be approved for home loans, insurance, etc if you live here

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Cascade effects of redlining

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Can only rent

Intergeneration lack of wealth

Outsider businesses take money out of neighborhoods

Redlining cut GI benefits for African Americans and other non whites

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How did Jews become white?

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When they were seen as middle class

30
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Performativity of gender

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Constructed through your own repetitive performance of gender

We perform gendered identity in different contexts

Perform gender in keeping with norms

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Pasco and use of the word fag

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Fag used as perception of femininity, not orientation

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T-ball

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Boys valued as althletes at an early age

Get more praise, encouragement, and advice in sports

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Gender inequality is based on

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Who controls the distribution of values goods and services outside the family

Not just about meat

Leverage from trading, building alliances, circulation of resources

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Washo people

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Men and women work together

Egalitarian

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Hazda people

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Men and women work independently

Provide for themselves

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Tiwi people

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Men dominate women

Men get large amounts of meat, but women’s flagons is more important, just less recognized

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Inuit people

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Men provide all food and control power

Women seen as objects

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Hijra

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Non binary gender believed to be determined by fate

Cannot create life, but give fertility blessings

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Mati work

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Child rearing, sexual relationships, emotional support, living together, economic relationships

To classify them as lesbians or bisexuals erases a major part of their identity

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Fixed identity

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Who somebody is

Unchanging, innate

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Flexible behavior

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Different ways of understanding sexuality

Malleable, dynamic, inclusive

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Mati work is about

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Work necessary for survival, not about sexuality

43
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Machismo

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Man who tops is masculine

Aggressive way of securing masculinity

Sex is about power

Have as many partners as possible

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