AMST 142 Midterm questions and
answers graded A+ updated
American Studies - correct answer ✔✔examines American life and culture
Ideology according to Hall - correct answer ✔✔it's a "mental framework- languages, concepts,
categories, etc. to make sense of how society & world work"
Negative concept - correct answer ✔✔ideology distorts reality
Neutral concept - correct answer ✔✔doesn't make direct references to single objective truth,
rather, interests of different groups are represented by different ideologies
Race - correct answer ✔✔"race is a concept which signifies & symbolizes social conflicts &
interests by referring to different types of human bodies" -Omi & Winant
History - correct answer ✔✔Racial formations are ___________ not biology
Racism - correct answer ✔✔"racial product defined as racist if & only if it creates/ reproduces
structures of dominance based on essentialism categories of race" -Omi & Winant
Essentialism - correct answer ✔✔"belief in real, true human, essences, existing outside/
impervious to social & historical context" -Omi & Winant
Racial formation - correct answer ✔✔"process by which racial categories are created, inhabited,
transformed, & destroyed" -Omi & Winant
, wide shot - correct answer ✔✔everything is seen; from head to toe
deep focus - correct answer ✔✔everything is in focus
medium shot - correct answer ✔✔waist up
close up - correct answer ✔✔shoulders and up
shallow focus - correct answer ✔✔background is blurry
montage - correct answer ✔✔or editing; several shots put together to collapse space in time
Emancipation - correct answer ✔✔1863; process created by black slaves freeing themselves
Reconstruction - correct answer ✔✔(1865-1877); rebuild & reform black education, voting
rights, citizenship, etc.
Redemption - correct answer ✔✔(1870-1898) opposition to civil rights progress
Jim Crow Era - correct answer ✔✔(1896-1965) legal loopholes to exclude African Americans
from voting and receiving an equal education
Industrialization - correct answer ✔✔end of the 19th century; waves of immigration from
Europe; urbanization; evokes Antebellum of the South as nostalgic
Minstrel Shows - correct answer ✔✔white performers wearing blackface; commonly seen by
working class audience
answers graded A+ updated
American Studies - correct answer ✔✔examines American life and culture
Ideology according to Hall - correct answer ✔✔it's a "mental framework- languages, concepts,
categories, etc. to make sense of how society & world work"
Negative concept - correct answer ✔✔ideology distorts reality
Neutral concept - correct answer ✔✔doesn't make direct references to single objective truth,
rather, interests of different groups are represented by different ideologies
Race - correct answer ✔✔"race is a concept which signifies & symbolizes social conflicts &
interests by referring to different types of human bodies" -Omi & Winant
History - correct answer ✔✔Racial formations are ___________ not biology
Racism - correct answer ✔✔"racial product defined as racist if & only if it creates/ reproduces
structures of dominance based on essentialism categories of race" -Omi & Winant
Essentialism - correct answer ✔✔"belief in real, true human, essences, existing outside/
impervious to social & historical context" -Omi & Winant
Racial formation - correct answer ✔✔"process by which racial categories are created, inhabited,
transformed, & destroyed" -Omi & Winant
, wide shot - correct answer ✔✔everything is seen; from head to toe
deep focus - correct answer ✔✔everything is in focus
medium shot - correct answer ✔✔waist up
close up - correct answer ✔✔shoulders and up
shallow focus - correct answer ✔✔background is blurry
montage - correct answer ✔✔or editing; several shots put together to collapse space in time
Emancipation - correct answer ✔✔1863; process created by black slaves freeing themselves
Reconstruction - correct answer ✔✔(1865-1877); rebuild & reform black education, voting
rights, citizenship, etc.
Redemption - correct answer ✔✔(1870-1898) opposition to civil rights progress
Jim Crow Era - correct answer ✔✔(1896-1965) legal loopholes to exclude African Americans
from voting and receiving an equal education
Industrialization - correct answer ✔✔end of the 19th century; waves of immigration from
Europe; urbanization; evokes Antebellum of the South as nostalgic
Minstrel Shows - correct answer ✔✔white performers wearing blackface; commonly seen by
working class audience
