Exam 2: The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs

The term redskin is a problem, and its lingering presence undermines the pursuit of ______ by American Indians.

The populist scorn Real Housewives provokes is not gender-neutral; its sights are set on the rich, to be sure, but only rich women, especially ______.

Katy Perry, the framing of men of color in her video, and her cultural appropriation matter because they reach a broad audience and serve to reinforce a racist and prejudicial understanding of the world that only sharpens dichotomies. To overlook the power of popular media because it is fluff is to ______.

Contemporary representations of ______ make visible new logics of Whiteness that are imbricated in a politics of the transnational.

The "new" Atticus character from "Go Set a Watchman" was a betrayal of White liberal idealism, feeding a suspicion that idealism was less than absolute. In other words, the author is saying ______.

The author describes how in Real Housewives conflict is always a prelude to greater interpersonal connectedness; it is the basis of their relationships.

In this article, the author mentions that ______. The most important economic function came from television's role as an instrument of legitimation for transformations in values initiated by the new economic imperatives of postwar America.

The Digital Age has obliterated the transqueers who embrace the borderlands of gender fluidity and replaced it with ______.

The story about a Midwestern woman in Ohio who, inspired by images of Angelina Jolie's adoption of an Ethiopian child, expressed a desire to do the same is important because it ______.

Critiquing these linguistic practices is not merely a rhetorical exercise because all of this talk has significant ______.

Whenever women's bodies are deemed to be excessive--"too fat, too mouthy, too old, too dirty, too pregnant, too sexual (or not sexual enough) for the norms of conventional gender representation"--Rowe argues that ______.

People who were, 20 years ago, described as "hermaphrodite" now name themselves "intersex." Over time, the language shifted because ______.

When the author mentions the apparently naturalized representations of events and situations relating to race, whether "factual" or "fictional," which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions, he is referring to ______.

The digital world has opened up communities for transgender people where none have existed before. There is less isolation and perhaps less struggle because of the resources, social networks, and virtual communities provided on the Internet.

The housewives' home lives and social lives are framed as ______, rearticulating postfeminist tensions in leisure-class terms.

In Andrew Solomon's landmark 2012 book about parenting and how children differentiate themselves, he makes a distinction between vertical and horizontal identity. Traits and values you don't share with parents, sometimes because of genetic mutation, sometimes through the choice of a different social world, define ______.

The author mentions that "pornographic eroticism" is particularly prominent in media coverage of which sport?

"Primitivism" is defined by ______.

Describe how a transgender person occupies the borderlands between communities and identities.

In the media character he self-created, Rush Limbaugh's unrestrained narcissism drives him to broadcast to his audience an inflated sense of himself as a ______.