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ANTH 2100 - Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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ANTH 2100 - Exam 2 Questions andAnswers
Race - Answers -A flawed system of classification, created, and recreated over time,
that uses a certain physical characteristics (such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape,
and eye color to divide the human populations into a few supposedly discrete biological
groups. This has no biological basis.
Miscegenation - Answers -interracial marriage
white supremacy - Answers -the belief that whites are biologically different and superior
to people of other races
Jim Crow Laws - Answers -Segregation laws throughout the South that legally enforced
boundaries between whites and blacks
Hypodescent - Answers -sometimes called the "one drop of blood rule"; the assignment
of children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group
Nativism - Answers -The desire to favor native inhabitants over new immigrants
Racialization - Answers -giving a racial character
Microaggressions - Answers -common, everyday verbal or behavioral indignities and
slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about someone's
race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
Intersectionality - Answers -an analytic framework for assessing how factors such as
race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life chances and societal patterns of
stratification
Ethnicity - Answers -One of the most powerful identities that humans develop: a sense
of connection to a group of people who we believe share a common history, culture, and
(sometimes) ancestry and who are distinct from others outside the group
origin myth - Answers -a story told about the founding and history of a particular group
to reinforce a sense of common identity
ethnic boundary marker - Answers -a practice or belief, such as food, clothing,
language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not
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