Ch 10 SOC

When an Indian American father tells his teenage daughter to be chaste and traditional and not promiscuous and weak like white American women, he is alluding to the way in which:

racial identity is defined through certain sexual practices and performances

Noting that being from the inner-city, the suburbs, or a rural area is acknowledging the importance of ________________ as a part of individual identity.

Geography

The practice known as a "Mississippi appendectomy" is best described by which of the following?

a forced sterilization performed on a poor black woman in the South as practice for medical residents at teaching hospitals

When people examine the overlap of their own intersecting identities, they may be likely to overlook the impact of their privileged identities, as described in which of the following examples?

an upper-middle-class black woman who minimizes the role of her economic position

Because many American Indians are married to non-American Indians, they often find themselves looking through the cultural lens of their partners and expanding their perspective. This type of emotional work is called:

Cultural labor

In 1930s America, economic pressures resulted in which of the following impacts for nonwhite families?

efforts to force repatriations of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico

The process of immigration can be a great stressor for families coming to the United States. For example, in the United States, Hmong kinship networks of extended family relationships are limited as Hmong people are expected to adopt the nuclear family model. This pressure demonstrates that:

the definition of family is not the same across racial-ethnic groups, and the expectation to conform can take a toll on families

A beauty product marketed to Asian American women with the intent of "lightening" their skin represents:

the racialization of Asian femininity toward white standards

Black women are the least likely group in American society to marry. Some analysts even estimate rates as low as what?

One in three black women will marry in her lifetime

According to the textbook, what is the relationship between societal attitudes about interracial marriage and raising the question, "What about the children?"

The question is often positioned as a rationalization for being opposed to interracial marriages and comes frequently as a way to package that disapproval without being forthright.

When a native-born, third-generation Chinese American woman encounters repeated interactions with others where she is asked, "Where are you originally from?," what aspects of her identity are being highlighted?

The way that many native-born Asian American citizens remain in a position symbolically tied to an assumed immigrant status

A cultural legacy of devaluing black women's beauty, external control of black women's sexuality, and the historical impact of patterns of mating and family formation between black men and women are possible explanations for which of the following contemporary trends?

exclusion of black women as potential mates (as compared to white, Latina, and Asian women) on Internet dating sites

Formalized legal restrictions against interracial marriages during the 1950s was a type of:

external sanction

Couples who are dissimilar from one another may have a lower probability of staying married; black couples show greater spousal dissimilarity than nonblack couples. One reason for this may be that:

the relatively small size of the marriage pool for blacks limits choices for potential mates, increasing the chance of incompatibility

When people argue that race is marked, or socially constructed, what are they referring to?

the way that race "imposes itself on you" through America's racial taxonomy

Because of many factors—including, but not limited to, the history of male and female roles under slavery and the interaction patterns between men and women in families—black men and women tend to differ in their views of gender roles and expectations. In terms of the meaning of race and/or gender in understanding this difference, we might say that:

to fully appreciate the nuance of these differences, we have to take into account both gendered and racial aspects of identity