Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Answer the following questions. Book reference: Rothenberg, Paula S. (2020). Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study – 11th ed. Worth Publishers: New York, N.Y. ISBN: 978-1- 319-14365-7

Week Six Quiz Rothenberg, Pages 294 through 347

_____ 1. What is the phrase that, according to P. R. Lockhart, is a new news genre is a

phrase that compasses the myriad ways black people are viewed with suspicion, profiled, and threated with responses from police for minor infractions, or less? a. “Living Like White” c. “Living Without Being Black” b. “Living While Black” d. “Trying to Keep from Dying”

_____ 2. P. R. Lockhart writes, “While white people see police as a force that will protect them, communities of color see a force that is more likely to:” a. “do more damage.” c. “do the opposite.” b. “that will harm them.” d. “that will pursue them.”

_____ 3. Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock describe what 1969

rebellion as being mythically cast as the “birthplace” of the modern LCBT rights movement? a. The Jackson Revolt c. The Grant Rebellion b. The Printers Ally Unrest d. The Stonewall Uprising

_____ 4. According to Mogul, Ritchie, and Whitlock, up until the 1980s, policing gender took the form of enforcement of _________ laws, which required individuals to wear at least three articles of clothing conventionally associated with the gender they were assigned at birth. a. restrictive c. protective b. sumptuary d. preventive

_____ 5. According to Mogul, Ritchie, and Whitlock’s quote of Gwen Smith from the

Washington Blade, in law and in life, _______________ seem to be the site were one’s sexual authenticity is tested. a. schools c. bathrooms b. restaurants d. bedrooms

_____ 6. According to Sabrina Rubin Erdely, of the 25 reported anti-LGBT homicides in 2012, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, transgender people accounted for more than _________ of the victims. All of those trans homicide victims were trans women of color. a. half c. a quarter b. one-third d. twenty-percent

_____ 7. Sabrina Rubin Erdely reports that even though the suicide rate for the general

population is about 4.6 percent, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that an extraordinary ____ percent of trans respondents had attempted suicide, with the rate soaring to 64 percent for sexual-assault victims. a. fifty-one c. twenty-one b. thirty-one d. forty-one

_____ 8. According to Sabrina Rubin Erdely, CeCe McDonald, a transgender woman, who was born as a boy, was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for stabbing Dean Schmitz in the chest, and was given a 41-month sentence in the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud, a state: a. prison for the mentally ill. c. for youthful offenders. b. men’s prison. d. women’s prison.

_____ 9. Raven E. Heavy Runner, a member is the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, writes that he believes that homophobia, is what ________________ education taught the Native People. a. European c. an Anishinaabe b. the Two-Spirit Society d. an Indian Nation University

_____10. According to Mohammad, an Iranian immigrant to the U.S., Mahamoud Asgari

(age 16) and Ayaz Marhoni (age 18) are the names of two teenagers who were killed in Iran for no reason other than: a. being American citizens. c. being criminal suspects. b. being African American. d. being gay.

_____11. According to Samantha Artiga and Petry Ubri, there are over _____ million children who live with a noncitizen parent who are predominantly U.S. born citizen children. a. twelve c. twenty-three b. seventeen d. six

_____12. Laura Gottesdiener, Malav Kanuga, and Cinthya Santos-Briones write that

among those largely missing from the _____________ movement are the stories of women who have been sexually abused by members of the United States Customs and Border Protection agency. a. Womanism c. #MeToo b. Sister Source d. Redstockings

_____13. According to Laura Gottesdiener, Malav Kanuga, and Cinthya Santos- Briones, over a recent two-year period, immigrants filed on average, more than one complaint every single day of sexual abuse or assault inside the Department of Homeland Security facilities. The authors quote data, obtained from the group Freedom for Immigrants, less that _______ percent of these complaints were even investigated. a. fifty c. thirty b. three d. thirteen

_____14. Gottesdiener, Kanuga, and Santos-Briones report that in the fall of 2012, Aura

Hernández was on her way to church when she was stopped by police and reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What mistake did Hernández make that results in her being stopped by police? a. She took money from an ATM and looked suspicious to the police. b. She drove down a street that was one-way on Sundays. c. She ran a four-way stop sign. d. She crossed an intersection when the light was yellow.

_____15. To illustrate why black women’s experiences of the #MeToo are different, Yolonda Wilson cites an investigation by the Department of Justice that found the Baltimore Police Department conducted a strip search of a black woman, including an anal cavity search, on a sidewalk in broad daylight and in full public review. What was the woman’s offense? a. She had a broken headlight. c. She ran a red light. b. She robbed a bank. d. She did not pay a parking ticket.

_____16. To illustrate how black women have been the victims of sexual violence,

Yolonda Wilson cites a study that claims that black women were denied anesthesia on the grounds that black people did not ______ __________ in the same ways that while people do. a. suffer anguish c. recall trauma b. feel pain d. remember suffering

_____17. Chris Linder and Jessica C. Harris describe paying attention to power

dynamics at work in individual, institutional, and cultural systems of oppression by using what phrase? a. “modification cognizance” c. “power conscious” b. “variation perception” d. “control awareness”

_____18. Chris Linder and Jessica C. Harris claim that rather than blaming alcohol, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, or miscommunication, _________ are solely responsible for sexual violence. a. abusers c. pornographers b. prostitutes d. perpetrators

_____19. Christopher F. Petrella and Ameer Loggins use North Dakota’s Standing

Rock Sioux Reservation’s fight against an oil pipeline crossing their main source of drinking water and the lead-tainted water supply accessed by the citizens of Flint, Michigan, a majority-black city, to the struggle to access to: a. autonomous administrative authority. b. democratic decision-making power. c. independent organizational control. d. sovereign legislative governance.

_____20. Sonny Singh writes that as he struggles in a very personal way to remain

hopeful as he copes with what trauma? a. prejudice c. bias b. bigotry d. racism