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Thinking about race
2nd edition chapters 8-11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| unable to be determined. A sexually ________ person is someone who does not appear to be definitely male or female. | Ambiguous |
| the meaning of being Jewish to Jews who are Americans. | American Jewish identity |
| having neither male nor female sexual traits; appearing to have neither male nor females sexual traits. | Androgynous |
| a generalized image of a kind or type of person, which is shared within a culture. | Archetype |
| process of becoming part of a dominant culture by taking on its most important characteristics in place of one's own subordinate group characteristics. | Assimilation |
| person who does not believe in God on the grounds that God does not exist. | Atheist |
| looking and behaving as members of one's racial or ethnic group are expected to appear and behave. | Authentic appearance |
| loyalty and helpfulness to members of one's racial or ethnic group, simply because they are members of one's own group. | Authentic solidarity |
| genuiness or realness as the member of a racial or ethnic group. | Authenticity |
| individual self-rule; the freedom of individuals to choose their actions and develop as persons. | Autonomy |
| social role characteristics of people in non-Western cultures who are accepted as members of the opposite sex within their communities. | Berdache |
| poor, usually urban, inadequately educated part of black population with high rates of unemployment and involvement in the criminal justive system as defendants. | Black underclass |
| middle class; property-owners or owners of means of production in society. | Bourgeoisie |
| in social class terms, a combination of preferred or believed-to-be superior ancestry and upbringing. | Breeding |
| set of hypotheses about groups in society that explain how they have developed and now interact as social classes. | Class theory |
| economic and political system in which major means of production are owned by the government in the name of the people. | Communism |
| analysis of the power relations and dominant-subordinate behavior in a society, which are unjust and not always recognized for what they are by participants. | Critical theories |
| displaying knowledge of the history and tradition of one's racial or ethnic group, which display is expected by others. | Cultural authenticity |
| idea that feminism must be conceptualized and practiced differently by women of different races and social classes. | Difference feminism |
| affirmation of the privileged position of a social group with natural or cultural advantages. | Elitism |
| freedom, usually following a situation of oppression. | Emancipatory |
| intellectual and political practices that are intended to further or result in emancipation for a particular group. | Emancipatory traditions |
| contemporary interdisciplinary scholarly thought, personal ideology, and social and political activism that affirms the rights and value of women and analyzes the contemporary and historical conditions of their exclusion and oppression. | Feminism |
| description of ideas or behavior that laypeople share within a culture. | Folk model |
| former African American slaves who were freed. | Freedman |
| The behavioral and social role aspects of maleness or femaleness. | Gender |
| period during the 1920s and 1930s when black arts and literature began to flourish on the basis of the pride of American blacks in their achievements and culture. | Harlem Renaissance |
| the same within, having similiar members. | Homogenous |
| fearing or hating homosexuals and lesbians. | Homophobia |
| categorization of a person by others in terms of race, ethnicity, or gender (more broadly, other categories also apply, such as age and physical ableness). | Indentification |
| to categorize another by race or ethnicity; to put oneself in the place of another or imagine oneself to be another specific individual or member of a racial or ethnic group different from one's own; to state one's race or ethnicity. | Identify |
| self-categorization of a person in terms of race, ethnicity, or gender (more broadly, other categories also apply, such as occupation); what a person is to himself or herself | Identity |
| formal or informal political system in which people vote or otherwise exert influence as members of racial, gendered, ethnic, or other groups with interests and status unrecognized by the majority (ie. homosexuals and the disabled) | Identity politics |
| system of beliefs about how the world ought to be, based on the assumptions, economic interests, value judgements, or fundamental politcal beliefs | Ideology |
| when two or more categories in which a person is classified and indentified work in combination to create a category or form of experience different from that of any of the categories originally combined. | Intersection |
| having the primary biological traits of both males and females, or having neither. | Intersexed |
| condistion necessary for recreation and self-care and development. | Leisure |
| A woman who prefers other women as sexual partners; in feminist contexts, the centering of women's experience. | Lesbian |
| hypothesis, plan, description, ideology, or analysis of current cultural conditions that is intended to achieve freedom for a particular group(s). | Liberation theory |
| keep outside the center or exclude from full participation and empowerment. | Marginalized |
| ideology based on the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. | Marxist ideology |
| ruled by women | Matriarchal |
| late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century theatrical genre in which white men wore "blackface" to imitate both black men and women in stereotypical roles. | Minstrelsy |
| before 1920, part of black population that was mixed race and had advantages of interactions with whites as well as middle-class education, employment, and cultural experience. | Mulatto elite |
| program that includes people from different cultures as well as their distinctive intellectual, literary, and artistic products. | Mutliculturalism |
| an account of experiences and events that focuses on the particulars of what takes place, rather than a generalization about types of experiences or events; a story | Narratives |
| group of people believed to be superior to others solely due to traits they are born with (not originally a racial concept). | Natural aristocracy |
| laws believed to be given to men by God, believed by Christians to be a foundation for democratic constitutional government with safeguards for individual's rights, especially the right to own private property. | Natural law |
| quality of being present by nature or in nature, without human intervention or cultural influence. | Naturalness |
| characteristics of some Jews whereby they do not follow the religious practices of Judaism. | Nonobservant |
| conceptual boundaries, foundations, or restrictions. | Parameters |
| social system in which men dominate in all important areas of life, usually associated with their roles as fathers and husbands but extending to public life as well | Patriarchal system |
| a public whole composed of different racial or ethnic groups that are treated equally and valued by their members and members of other groups for their distinct identities. | Pluralistic society |
| in production, the monetary diffence between the material, labor, and capital costs of production and the price received for the products. | Profit |
| Marxist term for nineteenth and twentieth century laborers; generally the working class. | Proletariat |
| the history of something whereby its initial circumstances and changes in circumstances are traced in time; usually applied to art objects,but also ironically applicable to people in terms of identities. | Provenance |
| continual creation of social structures, as well as oppressive categories, within a culture; biological production of next generation. | Reproduce |
| member of a Caucasian race that now consists of Jews and Arabs. | Semites |
| biological difference based on reproductive function and chromosomal markers. | Sex |
| a strong desire to engage in sexual activity, assumed to be universally present in human beings. | Sex drive |
| persons or things that, without regard for their own feelings, are sexually sought after by others. | Sexual objects |
| persons who actively desire others, usually with the power to actualize their desires. | Sexual subjects |
| inherited social class. | Social caste |
| not present in nature but created and maintained in culture and often thought to be "natural." | Socially constructed |
| fixed, often derogatory, idea about members of a group that is applied to all members, regardless of individual difference; may be true of some members of the group or of no members of the group. | Stereotyped |
| late nineteenth and early twentieth century women activists who organized, wrote, spoke, and demonstrated to secure the right of women to vote. | Suffragists |
| pertaining to how things were done in the past. | Tradition |
| the gender charactersistics of an individual whose gender does not match the biological sex he or she was characterized by at birth. | Transsexuals |
| contemporary form of feminism developed by black women writers and scholars that emphasizes their experience and knowledge, as well as their sources of spiritual inspiration in religion and the lives of other black women. | Womanists |
| term for the movement and ideology of women's emancipation, or for feminism, that was in use during the 1960s and 1970s | Women's liberation |
| high German dialect written in Hebrew letters, used by European Jews. | Yiddish |
| Jewish religious and political beliefs and actions that hold Israel, as the original Jewish homeland, to be of central importance to Jews throughout the Jewish diaspora | Zionism |
| courage to express one's beliefs & opinions or display how one is when others disagree or disapprove. | Personal Authenticity |
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