Quizzes 07-011

Question 1

Omi and Winant dispute the existing/standard definitions/approaches to race. Which of the following is NOT one of those approaches?

Answer 1

aversive ideological definition of race

Question 2

According to Omi and Winant, writings about the biological nature of race resulted in justification of inequitable allocation of political and social rights, while also NOT maintaining the ideology of the “rights of man”.

Answer 2

false

Question 3

Blaxploitation refers to what?

Answer 3

the 1971 film “Shaft”; films that exploit the African-american experience; group of films that portrayed the black man protagonist as violent criminals, super studs, pimps, and drug dealers

Question 4

Sydney Poitier stands out because he was an African-American actor who played middle-and upper-class roles during the sixties. He was equal and often superior to any white antagonist. What film did he star in as a doctor?

Answer 4

“guess who’s coming to dinner”

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT a stereotyped persona of a black person?

Answer 5

Chav

Question 6

McIntosh suggests that whites often do not notice race-based social benefits that qualify as white privilege.

Answer 6

true

Question 7

The Harder They Fall passes the Bechdel test in which of the following ways?

Answer 7

Two named female characters speak to each other about their history, for cumulatively greater than a minute.

Question 8

Which of the following is an example Morris uses in his discussion of the “standard body” being white?

Answer 8

medical testing/research is based off the white male body

Question 9

Which of the following is an example Morris uses in his discussion of the “standard mind” being white?

Answer 9

SAT scores are created to reinforce ideas of white supremacy

Question 10

Morris says that white people are considered the ideal, the epitome of perfection.

Answer 10

false

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that Morris describes potential solutions for White Normativity?

Answer 11

abolish race as a category

Question 12

Morris states that the process of White Normativity accounts for positive and negative stereotypes of non-white races because white people are considered the most _____________.

Answer 12

human

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT one of the types of characters found in a Western, according to Belton?

Answer 13

sheriff

Question 14

Nate Love, Cherokee Bill, Rufus Buck, Stagecoach Mary, Jim Beckworth, and Cuffee were all real people.

Answer 14

true

Question 15

In Westerns women are often symbols of civilization and what?

Answer 15

the east

Question 16

According to Belton’s description, Cuffee from The Harder They Fall falls into which character type in a Western?

Answer 16

tenderfoot

Question 17

According to Belton, in Westerns which major industry has a complicated relationship with the West, being both a savior and an offender?

Answer 17

railroad

Question 18

Peggy McIntosh states that she began to realize her white privilege after experiencing co-workers who were unaware of their __________.

Answer 18

male privilege

Question 19

Rufus and Nate were enemies, but also ____________________.

Answer 19

brothers

Question 20

The Harder They Fall serves as a positive ________________________ (3 words) because it highlights black historical people who are rarely taught in US schools or seen in media.

Answer 20

racial formation project

Question 21

microassault

Answer 21

often conscious, racial slur intended to hurt the victim

Question 22

microinsult

Answer 22

often unconscious, demean a person’s racial or ethnic identity or heritage, includes rudeness and insensitivity

Question 23

microinvalidation

Answer 23

often unconscious, excludes, negates, or nullifies a racial minority’s thoughts, feelings, or experiences

Question 24

According to Sue, et al. the problem with microaggressions, and the reason they typically create more stress and more damage to minority groups, is that they are NOT which of the following?

Answer 24

are relatively rare

Question 25

Jim White takes the team where, when he learns they have never been there before?

Answer 25

beach/ocean

Question 26

According to Julio Cammarota, films typically employ a white savior narrative because that is the way that history actually works.

Answer 26

false

Question 27

McFarland, USA passes the Bechdel test in which of the following ways?

Answer 27

the film doesn't pass the Bechdel test

Question 28

According to the clip seen in class on the Southern Border, where is the greatest number of undocumented people coming from?

Answer 28

overstayed visas

Question 29

McFarland, USA is a white savior film.

Answer 29

true

Question 30

According to Rowe, which of the following statements are true of borders:

Answer 30

a) they represent a specific racial/ethnic ideology b) they are a function of control and power c) they're manmade and arbitrary

Question 31

What are the three forms of microaggressions identified by Sue et al?

Answer 31

microinsult, microassault, microinvalidations

Question 32

According to Sue et al, Microaggressions are

Answer 32

often unintentional

Question 33

According to Rowe, what is the social, political, and cultural function of "white victimization"?

Answer 33

rationalizing state violence

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT one of the topics outlined by Rowe regarding race and nationalism?

Answer 34

brown victimization

Question 35

Cammorata argues that both Hollywood and the Education system push a policy of white people “helping” disenfranchised groups, without ever recognizing or trying to dissolve the system of inequality that disenfranchised those people to begin with. He discusses one major blockbuster, ________________ (1 word), which is often praised for its critical message that falls into this same trap.

Answer 35

avatar

Question 36

In Stephen Colbert's clip, the Word _____________ (1 word) is used in place of white, to imply white normativity.

Answer 36

neutral

Question 37

Unlike Overt and Symbolic racism, ________________________ racism, where egalitarian values operate on a conscious level, but anti-minority feelings are more subconscious and covert, is one that is more likely to be perpetuated by progressives and those who consider themselves open-minded.

Answer 37

aversive

Question 38

Jim learns that in the Hispanic culture around McFarland, the families celebrate the girl's special birthday by throwing a ___________. So he belatedly throws one for Julie.

Answer 38

Quincenera

Question 39

At the end of the film, we learn that almost all of the team become the first in their family to ________________.

Answer 39

attend college

Question 40

In the clip seen for class about systemic racism, what is the term that stemmed from the 1950s that describe the way banks would outline neighborhoods as acceptable for loans or not?

Answer 40

red lining

Question 41

Cammorata describes people who aid minorities in films as EITHER those who are paternalistic and overlook systemic issues, called _________________ (2 words), or those who work with minorities against systemic inequalities.

Answer 41

white saviors

Question 42

According to Ahmed, the fear of homosexuality is associated with the "pleasure principle" and the failure to reproduce. Homosexuality then is seen as a threat to the social order.

Answer 42

true

Question 43

Which of the following is NOT a sphere of film for homosexuals according to Dean?

Answer 43

LGBT cinema

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT one of the five concepts Dean uses to analyze sexual identity and normative heterosexuality?

Answer 44

presentation of heterosexual identities

Question 45

Happiest Season passes the Bechdel test in which of the following ways?

Answer 45

Two named female characters speak to each other about their role/position in society, for cumulatively greater than a minute.

Question 46

Garnets states that the data clearly shows that one's experiences in childhood definitely influence sexual orientation.

Answer 46

false

Question 47

Which of Garnet's "New Paradigm" is clearly seen in Happiest Season?

Answer 47

behavior is not identity

Question 48

bisexual

Answer 48

Sexual attractions to members of "both" genders.

Question 49

heterosexual

Answer 49

Sexual attractions to members of the opposite gender.

Question 50

asexual

Answer 50

A lack of sexual attraction to members of either gender.

Question 51

transgender

Answer 51

Gender identifies as someone different than they were assigned at birth.

Question 52

intersex

Answer 52

Born with multiple sex organs

Question 53

pansexuality

Answer 53

Sexual attraction to a person regardless of gender assignment.

Question 54

Which of the following is the term to describe the expectation in society that straight is the standard type of sexuality and any deviation or difference from that is considered abnormal and unusual?

Answer 54

heteronormativity

Question 55

The modern day discussions of homosexuality resemble former discussions of race in which of the following ways?

Answer 55

it's unnatural scientific validity (a biological problem) divine authorization (hetero is God's will)

Question 56

Which of the following is NOT one of the surprises revealed or discovered at the Christmas Party?

Answer 56

Jane is having her book published

Question 57

According to Dean's criteria, Happiest Season is a ________________ film.

Answer 57

queer cinema

Question 58

Ahmed argues that ____________________ (2 words) is all but removed from mainstream cinema, unless there is a straight counterpart, which is often shown as more important.

Answer 58

queer grief

Question 59

What is a Shiva?

Answer 59

A time of mourning for a Jewish community after a funeral.

Question 60

Danielle sends a naked picture of herself to whom during the Shiva?

Answer 60

max

Question 61

In Shiva Baby Danielle tells her Mom that she is trying to save money for law school.

Answer 61

false

Question 62

In Shiva Baby, Danielle does what kind of work?

Answer 62

sex work

Question 63

According to Fuller, the norm of whiteness justifies the economic exploitation of people of color.

Answer 63

true

Question 64

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that lower class and minority women's experience differed from middle class white women (who typically universalized their experience as all women's experience).

Answer 64

family life is generally defined by patriarchy

Question 65

What does Fuller say is a problem with the way feminism previously was focused?

Answer 65

It failed to take into account the different problems of minority and lower class women.

Question 66

Fuller discusses ways that race, class, and gender intersect. One of the most egregious examples of this is her discussion of involuntary sterilization that happened among black women through the early 1990s.

Answer 66

true

Question 67

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways Religion and Popular Culture interact according to Goff?

Answer 67

religion as a lens on pop culture pop culture influencing religion relig AS pop culture films based on relig/relig themes

Question 68

Which of the following is NOT an example of Goff's Film's Based on Religion and Religious Ideas.

Answer 68

Goonies

Question 69

Which of the following are examples of institutional religious imagery seen in Shiva Baby?

Answer 69

yamakas

Question 70

Pick argues that New Queer Cinema, while great for increased ability to make films that spoke to non-heteronormative people, were primarily made by whom?

Answer 70

white male homosexuals

Question 71

Pick states that Lesbian cinema has a strong sense of female community with sexuality as a major component. However, she also argues for certain aesthetic expectations involved (cinematic literacy, formal audaciousness).

Answer 71

true

Question 72

According to Hjarvard, _______________________ of religion is both the way that religion has been presented and understood through media and how media has informed the performance of religion.

Answer 72

mediatization

Question 73

Hjarvard says that __________ Religious Imagery comes in three forms: Folk, Institutional, and Non-Religious.

Answer 73

banal

Question 74

The ______________ wave of feminism is about the right to vote.

Answer 74

1st (suffrage)

Question 75

In the film Danielle says Gender Studies isn't a career but a ______________.

Answer 75

lens

Question 76

"Where we understand “it” better, but are still uncomfortable" is defined by Meuleners as ____________________, one of the Three Stages of Progression.

Answer 76

tolerance

Question 77

"When we make contact with “it” and compare “it” to ourselves" is defined by Meuleners as ____________________, one of the Three Stages of Progression.

Answer 77

recognition

Question 78

Hari Kondobolu says that Matthew McConaughey is the __________________ of the Gay Rights Movement.

Answer 78

Lenny of "Mice and Men"

Question 79

Trevor Noah is criticized for saying that France didn't win the world cup, but that _______________ won the world cup.

Answer 79

africa

Question 80

Trevor says that the "rich and various backgrounds of these players is a reflection of" ________________ rather than "diversity" that the France Ambassador claims.

Answer 80

france's colonialism

Question 81

Till passes the Bechdel test in which of the following ways?

Answer 81

Two named female characters speak to each other about their role/position in society, for cumulatively greater than a minute

Question 82

Which of the following of Fuller's point about lower class and minority women's experience differed from middle class white women (who typically universalized their experience as all women's experience) is NOT seen in Till.

Answer 82

they face the threat of sterilization

Question 83

According to hooks, biases that uphold and maintain white supremacy, imperialism, sexism, and racism, etc. are still seen in which “industry”?

Answer 83

education

Question 84

Giroux’s article is about ….

Answer 84

national identity and multiculturalism

Question 85

Emmett Till was killed for whistling at a white woman and saying she was as pretty as a movie star.

Answer 85

true

Question 86

Which of the following is NOT one of the arguments that the defense gave in the Till trial?

Answer 86

it was self-defense

Question 87

What Banal Religious Imagery is seen in the film Till?

Answer 87

Christian prayers cross necklace Christian funeral