In Framework Essay 2, which of the following was NOT discussed as an example of privilege?
A Harvard graduate gets a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm.
According to Framework Essay 2, if a status is "marked," it means that:
the person occupying the status is identified as special or unusual.
Which of the following statements do the authors state within Framework Essay 2 in regards to white privilege?
It is easier for white people to shoplift since security people are busy watching black and Latino customers.
Perhaps the privilege least noticed by non-disabled people is the simple ease of getting around; having fairly uncomplicated access to the world.
True
According to Framework Essay 2, "looping" refers to the process by which reports of mistreatment are dismissed using the very stigma about which the person is complaining.
True
In the discussion of hierarchies of stigma and privilege in Framework Essay 2, which of the following is false?
Blacks are more likely than Latinos or Asians to live in the suburbs.
Framework Essay 2 shows how the stigma of being in a wheelchair can “cancel out” the positive effects of expectations for intelligence due to college enrollment.
True
According to Framework Essay 2, historically, "passing" was used:
as a way to get better paying jobs.
According to Framework Essay 2, when a stigma can be hidden, it is:
discreditable.
Those who are totally blind, rather than legally, can suffer the consequence of inadvertent passing.
False
According to Framework Essay 2, "double consciousness" is:
seeing oneself or one's group through the eyes of the dominant group.
According to "Latinos and the U.S. Race Structure," race is primarily _______ to many Latinos.
cultural
According to "Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" when black teens develop an oppositional social identity, it is because:
they feel angry and resentful at being systematically excluded.
When black students have poor academic achievement, it is often because:
they have defined school achievement as something for whites only.
Which of the following accounts is not used within Marvasti and McKinney’s article on “Middle Eastern Lives in America”?
Coercion
Marvasti and McKinney define “passing” as
strategy for eliminating the need for accounting for one’s identity
According to Jelita McLeod, the "trick question" in the game of "Name That Ethnicity" is:
the author herself.
In the essay "Everybody's Ethnic Enigma," the author is:
none of the choices is correct.
Since 1991, when China loosened its adoption laws to address a growing number of children abandoned because of a national one-child policy, American families have adopted more than
55,000 children
Clemetson’s article on adoption shows that mostly white upper class Americans adopt children from China – and almost all are girls.
True
The main emphasis for the article “Loot or Find” can be described as:
Empirical studies on racism alone can not enlighten the public.
Harris and Carbado state that dependence on “just the facts” will seldom be enough to
dislodge racial frames.
In the essay "Chappals and Gym Shorts: An Indian-Muslim Woman in the Land of OZ," the author says that her body was:
a site on which to play out cultural and religious debates.
Which of the following is not included as one of Beneke’s categories relating to the content of the stress and distress involved in “compulsive masculinity”?
fathers
Beneke states in his piece “Proving Manhood” that the domination and degradation of women are a basic defense used to bolster men’s vulnerable masculinity.
True
Seidman states in his essay “Beyond the Closet” that the heightened sense of identity among heterosexuals and their deliberateness about asserting a heterosexual identity is something new.
True
Seidman’s piece states that the way multiculturalism works in the U.S. today
leaves in place the dominant social groups and social norms.
Rothblum states in her article that bisexuality is seen as either nonexistent or as a transitional phase within a
dichotomous definition
In the essay "Anti-Gay Slurs Common at School: A Lesson in Cruelty," anti-gay slurs at school are becoming more common in part because:
all of the above.
According to "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America," when the government determined a formula for calculating poverty in the early 1960s:
food costs and housing costs were roughly equal.
Barbara Ehrenreich states that the working poor remain poor because:
the poor are more constrained in their ability than other workers
According to John Larew, _________ of students attending Harvard were admitted because their parents were alumni.
one-fifth
Which of the following is true about legacy admissions at Ivy League schools, according to Larew?
The policy of giving preferential admissions to legacy applicants has its roots in anti-Semitism.
According to Larew, in 1925, _______ became the first school to introduce the legacy policy.
Yale University
Of the nearly 900,000 college-qualified high school students from low- and moderate-income families who graduated in that year, how many were prevented from enrolling in a four-year college according Fitzgerald’s article?
406,000
Fitzgerald’s article states low income students are how many times less likely to take entrance exams and apply to four-year colleges than their high-income peers?
six
According to Fitzgerald’s article, what percent separates the enrollment percentage between the highest achieving low-income students and the lowest-achieving high-income students?
1%
John Hockenberry decided to use public transit because:
he made a promise to his physical therapist.
Omansky states that when people act blind, it automatically elicits invasive and infantilizing questions from strangers because they see blind people as public property.
True
Omansky’s piece shows us society’s interaction with blindness is closer to a continuous spectrum including and accepting many levels of sightedness and blindness.
