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Hi!!! I am currently taking a winter course. It’s under “Multicultural studies”. I haven’t gotten a chance to read these pages in the book regarding these questions ☹️ please please please, if you know these books, please please please help answer these questions! DUE 1/19 by 3:00pm EST PLEASE 🙂
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EXAM 2024 Winter
NAME: ________________________________________________
MCS 10100. Intro to Multicultural Studies
Midterm 2021
PLEASE TYPE RESPONSES AND SUBMIT IN THE DROPBOX IN A WORD DOC. SAFE ASSIGN IS ACTIVATED
AND WILL PROVIDE A SCORE FOR PLAGARISM. YOU NEED TO HAVE A SCORE BELOW 25% OR YOU WILL
BE AUTOMATICALLY DEDUCTED 15 POINTS. PLEASE WRITE ORIGINAL RESPONSES. NO copying and
pasting! USE YOUR OWN WORDS.
YOU CAN QUOTE, BUT DO NOT ONLY USE QUOTES FOR YOUR RESPONSE AS THERE WILL BE NO
ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND YOU WILL RECEIVE A HIGHER SAFE ASSIGN SCORE. Cite to any sources you rely
on.
Short answer responses should be at least two full paragraphs. (Five to seven sentences) Grammar &
punctuation count.
PART 1: TEN POINTS EACH
1. In Racial Formations, how is race quantified? Explain in detail and what affect does the
quantification/classification have on minority (marginalized) groups. Explain in at least two
paragraphs.
2. In How Jews Became White and What That Says About America, what is the significance of
the GI Bill and the effect on various minority (marginalized) groups? Did the GI Bill have an
impact on the generational wealth of minority families today? Support your response with at
least two paragraphs.
3. In Judith Lorber’s Night to His Day, how does she describe gender as a product of social
construction? Does gender impact equal pay now and how?
4. In Bacon’s Rebellion prior to the rebellion was there racial discrimination in colonial
America? How was white privilege established?
PART 2: 3 POINTS EACH
Directions: Match the word to the correct definition. From the word bank provided in the folder.
Write the appropriate “letter” in the blank. (Four points each.). This section identifies common
terms used today in conversations regarding race, class and gender issues.
EXAM 2024 Winter
NAME: ________________________________________________
_____ 1. Is the social status a person is assigned at birth or assumed involuntary in life. It
is a position that is neither earned nor chosen.
______2. The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and
gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating
overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and disadvantage.
____ 3. The process by which the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier
people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically
displacing current inhabitants in the process.
_____4. A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a person or thing.
_____ 5. A system of society or government where the father or eldest male is head of the
family and descent is traced through the male line.
_____ 6. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a
different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.
_____7. Confine to the edges of society, treat as insignificant.
_____ 8. Intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
_____ 9. The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things,
especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
____ 10. New arrivals being absorbed into the dominant culture.
____ 11. Prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class.
____ 12. Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over
others.
____13. Policy of protecting the established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
_____14. Is the social position that is the primary identifying characteristics of an
individual.
_____ 15. Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their
ability.
EXAM 2024 Winter
NAME: ________________________________________________
WORD BANK FOR VOCABULARY SECTION
a. Color blind racism
x. capitalism
b. Assimilation
y. sexism
c. Hegemony
z. feminism
d. Marginalize
aa. socialism
e.Ideology
bb. nativism
f. Master status
cc. patriarchy
g. Ascribed status
dd. matriarchy
h. Classism
ee. facism
i. Emigration
ff. discrimination
j. Gentrification
gg. theory
k. intersectionality
hh. neo liberalism
l. Oppression
ii. meritocracy
m. postracial
n. ethnocentric
o. racism
p. refugee
q. racialization
r. sterotype
s. immigration
t. xenophobia
u. islamaphobia
v. antsemitism
X. white privilege
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