Exam 2: Systems of Power and Inequality

Ryan uses Caitlyn Jenner's gender transition as an example of mainstream culture's acceptance of only a narrow range of transgender identities. Ryan wishes to advance a critique of media coverage of figures like Caitlyn Jenner and Aydian Dowling without criticizing Jenner or Dowling themselves. Do you think Ryan is successful with this task? Why or why not?

City planners interested in urban revitalization often regard gay populations as______.

White nationalism in the United States_____.

According to Katz, the idea of heterosexuality is a modern invention, dating to the_____century.

What is the difference between "White" and "honorary White," and why does this difference matter? How does an intermediary group buffer race conflict?

Social construction of race refers to the_____.

Omi and Winant describe policy debate as an example of how racial projects take place as a macro-level social process. How might racial projects take place as micro-level social processes? What examples of this can you describe?

How has the presentation of South Asians and Indian Americans in popular culture been limited historically?

Color-blind ideology ______.

Compare Lessard's arguments about the sexual and racial politics of urban revitalization with Joelle Ruby Ryan's arguments about trans* visibility and inclusion (chapter 18). How are issues of the visibility and invisibility of marginal identities central to both arguments? How do the organizations described by Lessard illustrate the limits of assimilationist or respectability politics for achieving LGBTQ inclusion?

Does a triracial stratification system redistribute power to racial minorities or reinforce White power? Why?

Racism and heterosexism use similar mechanisms to maintain _____________ .

What are the ways the Black women in Durr and Wingfield's study had to act in order to feel like they "fit in"?

What are the two archetypes of South Asians most commonly presented on television? Give examples.

Both femininity and masculinity are performative-that is, they require performing gender in such a way that others can interpret behavior as consistent with their expectations of women or men. Have you experienced expectations to enact different gender performances in different contexts or interactional arenas? How might your race or ethnicity have also shaped those varying expectations?

According to Bonilla-Silva, colorblind ideology is a form of_____.

What is "oppositional identity"?

A color-blind perspective insinuates that_____are responsible for racial inequality.

Katz refers to the time period when the heterosexual norm went almost unchallenged as_____.

Abby L. Ferber's research reveals that White supremacists view Jews as __________ .