ANTH 411 Quizzes 8, 9, 10
When the author of The (frustrating) User Experience, a light-skinned,
Portuguese speaking, Brazilian of Italian and Portuguese descent, was faced
with filling out a survey question--What's Your Ethnicity? (white, Hispanic,
Asian, Black/African American)--what was his reaction? - correct answer
✔He immediately thought through his options, decided he couldn't fill out the
survey, and clicked out of it.
At the end of the film clip A Trip to the Grocery Store, Joy DeGruy notes that
her sister-in-law used her white privilege to educate and make right a situation
involving racism. What did DeGruy's sister-in-law do? - correct answer ✔As
a Black women who often passes as White, she pointed out that the White
cashier had treated her and her sister-in-law very differently when it came to
paying.
According to Brodkin-Sack's article, in the first half of the 20th Century United
States, as part of a new belief in the scientific reality of European races, some
of these races were thought to be better than others, some were thought to be
less intelligent and more feeble-minded. Which of these newly defined and
recognized European races were thought to be the most superior? - correct
answer ✔Nordic, Northwestern European
Privilege can be defined as something that hapens when one group has
something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they
belong to, rather than because of anything they've done or failed to do. In the
short clip about going to the grocery story, Joy DeGruy's sister-in-law had
privileges she didn't have based on what? - correct answer ✔skin color
According to Brodkin-Sacks, out of the anti-semitism of the early 20th century,
how did Jews finally "become white?" - correct answer ✔Anti-semitism lost
respectability after WWII.
, The U.S. census stopped distinguishing between "native" and immigrant-born
whites.
Economic prosperity and federal programs increased educational and
employment opportunities for Jewish people.
According to Brodkin-Sacks' article, it wasn't until the 19th century that the
idea that there were various, distinct European "races" really took hold in the
U.S. - correct answer ✔True
In her article, Brodkin-Sacks argues that all "non-white" races (Jews, African
Americans, Euroethnics) experienced similar improved opportunities for
upward mobility, and had their abilities and efforts rewarded in the post-WWII
time period in the United States. - correct answer ✔False
Brodkin-Sacks ultimately argues that personal ability is the main attribute
needed to erase the gap between those considered "white" and "non-white" in
the U.S. - correct answer ✔False
In the film clip Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Acho quotes
LBJ as saying, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled
by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then
say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that
you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of
opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates."
What idea was he using this quote to help explain? - correct answer ✔white
privilege
The Crow tribal leader's comment: "We don't waste people the way white
society does. Every person has their gift," was shared as evidence for the
general support and acceptance many native communities had for their
members who didn't neatly fit into standard or "normal" gender roles. - correct
answer ✔True
When the author of The (frustrating) User Experience, a light-skinned,
Portuguese speaking, Brazilian of Italian and Portuguese descent, was faced
with filling out a survey question--What's Your Ethnicity? (white, Hispanic,
Asian, Black/African American)--what was his reaction? - correct answer
✔He immediately thought through his options, decided he couldn't fill out the
survey, and clicked out of it.
At the end of the film clip A Trip to the Grocery Store, Joy DeGruy notes that
her sister-in-law used her white privilege to educate and make right a situation
involving racism. What did DeGruy's sister-in-law do? - correct answer ✔As
a Black women who often passes as White, she pointed out that the White
cashier had treated her and her sister-in-law very differently when it came to
paying.
According to Brodkin-Sack's article, in the first half of the 20th Century United
States, as part of a new belief in the scientific reality of European races, some
of these races were thought to be better than others, some were thought to be
less intelligent and more feeble-minded. Which of these newly defined and
recognized European races were thought to be the most superior? - correct
answer ✔Nordic, Northwestern European
Privilege can be defined as something that hapens when one group has
something of value that is denied to others simply because of the groups they
belong to, rather than because of anything they've done or failed to do. In the
short clip about going to the grocery story, Joy DeGruy's sister-in-law had
privileges she didn't have based on what? - correct answer ✔skin color
According to Brodkin-Sacks, out of the anti-semitism of the early 20th century,
how did Jews finally "become white?" - correct answer ✔Anti-semitism lost
respectability after WWII.
, The U.S. census stopped distinguishing between "native" and immigrant-born
whites.
Economic prosperity and federal programs increased educational and
employment opportunities for Jewish people.
According to Brodkin-Sacks' article, it wasn't until the 19th century that the
idea that there were various, distinct European "races" really took hold in the
U.S. - correct answer ✔True
In her article, Brodkin-Sacks argues that all "non-white" races (Jews, African
Americans, Euroethnics) experienced similar improved opportunities for
upward mobility, and had their abilities and efforts rewarded in the post-WWII
time period in the United States. - correct answer ✔False
Brodkin-Sacks ultimately argues that personal ability is the main attribute
needed to erase the gap between those considered "white" and "non-white" in
the U.S. - correct answer ✔False
In the film clip Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Acho quotes
LBJ as saying, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled
by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then
say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that
you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of
opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates."
What idea was he using this quote to help explain? - correct answer ✔white
privilege
The Crow tribal leader's comment: "We don't waste people the way white
society does. Every person has their gift," was shared as evidence for the
general support and acceptance many native communities had for their
members who didn't neatly fit into standard or "normal" gender roles. - correct
answer ✔True
