Question 1

What evidence is there in Brown and Jones's account of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) that successful social justice activism requires long-term commitment on the part of movement leaders?

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Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a purpose of Black cyberfeminism, as outlined by Kishonna Gray?

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A)  creating space for women of color to resist controlling images through self-definition 
B)  interrogating structural inequality through interlocking forms of oppression 
C)  asserting power and superiority over White society 
D)  combining intellectualism with activism

Question 3

In life history interviews with Latino men, Vasquez-Tokos and Norton-Smith found that men felt constrained by controlling images that associated them with _____________ .

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A)  sex and drugs 
B)  cars and fashion 
C)  gangs and sports 
D)  church and family

Question 4

In "Immigrant Rights are Civil Rights" Brown and Jones argue that the success of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance (MIRA) is the result of ___________ .

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A)  a state legislature that is friendly to Latinos 
B)  a political coalition between Black and Latino allies 
C)  the fact that white Mississippians recognize the value of immigrant labor 
D)  intervention from National Civil Rights organizations that have acted on MIRA's behalf

Question 5

What is the "boomerang effect" that Terriquez describes for intersectional mobilization?

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Question 6

Based on your reading of Sarah Jackson's article about hashtag activism, what are "networked counterpublics"?

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A)  mediated network spaces where marginalized people make their experiences visible and advocate for recognition of their needs 
B)  online business communities that follow trending topics to stay in touch with customers and take advantage of opportunities to profit from current events 
C)  revolutionary activities that take place in private discussion groups that seek to maintain exclusive boundaries of access 
D)  tools for building up opportunities for disadvantaged groups to be upwardly mobile by sharing information about mentoring and professional opportunities

Question 7

What new addition do Roberts and Jesudason make to the categories of intersectionality that are discussed?

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A)  race 
B)  disability 
C)  gender 
D)  reproductive justice

Question 8

Since its inception, intersectionality has been applied to_____.

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A)  theory 
B)  empirical research 
C)  activism 
D)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 9

What is "reflexive racialization"? What do the "Brown kids" of Taqwacore understand about their own racialization and about the meaning of Whiteness?

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Question 10

Unlike the historical Black civil rights movement, contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter intentionally center the voices of_____.

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A)  Black men, who are the targets of police violence and the prison industrial complex 
B)  community elders, who have the longest histories of living under oppression 
C)  multiple marginalized groups, such as Black women, Black queer folks, and Black undocumented folks 
D)  White allies, who are strategic for achieving movement respect with a wider, mainstream audience

Question 11

According to Kishonna Gray, Internet technologies were not created to destroy hegemonic power structures;_____.

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A)  they can only promote internalized racism, regardless of Black users' intent 
B)  however, they are useful because they can provide empowerment to marginalized women 
C)  Black feminists avoid using them, because the Internet is not a welcoming space for Black cultural art forms 
D)  nonetheless, they have been successfully co-opted by cyberfeminists and now serve as a powerful platform for restructuring patriarchal structures

Question 12

Intersectional frameworks benefit from understanding_____, which is not the same as_____.

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A)  sameness; commonalities 
B)  commonalities; sameness 
C)  differences; dichotomies 
D)  dichotomies; differences

Question 13

Summarize the work of Generations Ahead. What are they adding to the knowledge base of intersectionality, and what do they seek to raise awareness of?

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Question 14

Analyzing commonalities amongst oppressed groups can reveal ______________ .

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A)  what groups should ally together 
B)  what groups have more power 
C)  what ways structures of oppression are linked 
D)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 15

According to Sarah Jackson, the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s made strategic decisions to center educated, cisgender Black men in racial justice struggles, calculating that they would be most likely to be seen as worthy of rights. Jackson identifies this strategy as a form of_____.

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A)  acceptability calculation 
B)  Black masculinist thought 
C)  patriarchal pandering 
D)  respectability politics

Question 16

In 1914, there were_____grocery stores per square mile in the United States?

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A)  12 
B)  25 
C)  40 
D)  50

Question 17

What is the historic-social context that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement and other movements built on Black feminist principles?

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A)  These movements emerged in the 1950s Jim Crow era to oppose de jure discrimination against African Americans. 
B)  These movements emerged in the 1970s as a result of the dissatisfaction that conservative Black women felt about the dangers that changing gender norms posed to Black families after the women's movements. 
C)  These movements emerged in the 1990s as a result of the threats of joblessness that were posed to Black Americans by immigration policies that made it easy for immigrants to displace Blacks in the labor market. 
D)  These movements emerged in the early 21st century, an era that celebrated racial progress while instituting neoliberal colorblind policies that denied the continuing impact of white supremacy.

Question 18

What is the relationship between Morales between poor health and lack of grocery stores in largely poor and minority inhabited neighborhoods?

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Question 19

In "Talking Back to Controlling Images," Vasquez-Tokos and Norton-Smith define controlling images, explaining that they are_____.

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A)  positive affirmations of dignity and worth 
B)  selective and optional tools for self-definition 
C)  a matter of psychology based in individual feelings 
D)  cultural instruments of power that are collective and systemic

Question 20

According to Roberts and Jesudason, how could the feminist movement benefit by examining differences in women?

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Exam 4: Intersectionality and Social Change