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Capital ✔Correct Answer-Is accumulated labor, a structure of (unequal) distribution that
represents the immanent structure of the social world, i.e. , the set of constraints that determine the
chances of success for practices - e.g. money, owned house, stocks, etc (Bourdieu).
Economic capital ✔Correct Answer-Is immediately and directly convertible into money and may be
institutionalized in the form of property rights (Bourdieu).
Cultural capital ✔Correct Answer-Is convertible, on certain conditions, into economic capital and
may be institutionalized in the form of educational qualifications. Cultural knowledge, ideas, tastes,
prowess, skills. Measured, valued, and distributed differently in the society, which relates to social
inequality and social classes. (Bourdieu).
Social capital ✔Correct Answer-made up of social obligations ("connections"), which is convertible,
in certain conditions, into economic capital and may be institutionalized in the form of a title of
nobility. Is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources including membership in a group
(Bourdieu).
Racial capitalism ✔Correct Answer-the mode of capitalist development that has occurred through
the coincidence of the emergence of modern racism alongside key phases of capitalist expansion. It
is NOT is not the history of all racism or an account of how capitalism treats different 'racial groups'
but how the world made through racism shapes patterns of capitalist development (Bhattacharyya).
Racial Capital ✔Correct Answer-the value derives from one's racial identity. The constructed nature
and value of race (akin to perceived reputation). Worthiness of non-whiteness and the worthiness of
diversity {Leong}.
Capitalism ✔Correct Answer-Is a mode of production based on private ownership of the means of
production. Positions us as objects to each other and objects who are reduced to their potential
price in the form of the value that they might yield (or perhaps give access to) {Marx}.
Limitations of Bourdieu and Marx ✔Correct Answer-Overlooked the constructed differences
among different races → the racial character of capitalism.The rise of capitalism is inseparable from
colonization, slavery, and domestication of women. Appropriation of land and raw resources and
enslavement (labor) between colonies and Europe → development of capitalism
microaggression ✔Correct Answer-by which they mean one of those many sudden, stunning, or
dispiriting transactions that mar the days of women and folks of color (Delgado & Stafancic).
CRT movement ✔Correct Answer-A collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and
transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. builds on the insights of two previous
movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism (Delgado & Stefancic).
Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory ✔Correct Answer-Racism is ordinary, not aberrational—
"normal science," the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most
people of color in this country. Our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important
purposes, both psychic and material, for the dominant group.
, Social construction of race ✔Correct Answer-Racial catagories are fluid. Self-identification vs. other
people's perceptions vs. institutional identity as constructed. Methods include by/in the legal or
statistical system, by /through the media, in knowledge production (scholarly work ie. books).
Intersectionality ✔Correct Answer-the theoretical approach to understand the interconnected
nature of social categorizations (e.g. gender, race, class) as creating overlapping and interdependent
systems of social dominations {Crenshaw}.
Features of racism ✔Correct Answer-Ordinariness -means that racism is difficult to address or cure
because it is not acknowledged. Color-blind, or "formal," conceptions of equality "interest
convergence" or material determinism. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites
(materially) and working-class whites (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to
eradicate it.
race as technology ✔Correct Answer-shifts the focus from the what of race to the how of race,
from knowing race to doing race by emphasizing the similarities between race and technology.
Reveals how race functions as the "as," how it facilitates comparisons between entities classed as
similar or dissimilar (Chun).
Evolution of race ✔Correct Answer-15th century - Common decent (kinship; noble house, etc).
16th century - Geographical group of people with common physical characteristic (e.g. English). 18th
century - Scientific discovery/Industiralism/Capitalism (Linnaeus's taxonomy)
Doll Test ✔Correct Answer-used in Brown v. Board of Education to end educational Segregation,
performed in Italy. Children can recognize white/dark dolls, and tend to associate the darker doll
with negative qualities. Some re-used the results from doll test to justify the segregation - saying
keeping mixed kids together will lower self esteem and idenity unity.
Race and genetics ✔Correct Answer-21st century - The return of the scientific method in the form
of genetics. Conflating genetic information w/ lifestyle - Risks of making connections between
genetics and personality/ personal characteristics. The danger of "genetification of race" in popular
science - making race genetically determined through predictive traits.
Racial formation ✔Correct Answer-the process by which social, economic and political forces
determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by
racial meanings (Omi and Winant).
Orientalism ✔Correct Answer-objectification of the East, regardless of the accuracy or
thoroughness, to serve the purpose of the constructed binary between the East and the West and of
the institutions of imperialism and colonialism (Edward Said).
Techno-Orientalism ✔Correct Answer-persistent efforts to make the East as the alienated other,
and threat, because and in spite of the technological progress. The expressive vehicle (cultural
productions and visual representations) by which Western and Eastern nations articulate their fears,
desires, and anxieties.
Techno-orientalism ✔Correct Answer-a way in pop culture (e.g., cinema, novels)tends to portray a
futuristic world in a dystopian, bleak, and Asian-influenced fashion in pop culture. Associated with
xenophobia and racism, appropriation of Asian culture elements in the futuristic world and often
features racialized and dehumanized Asian female bodies.
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Capital ✔Correct Answer-Is accumulated labor, a structure of (unequal) distribution that
represents the immanent structure of the social world, i.e. , the set of constraints that determine the
chances of success for practices - e.g. money, owned house, stocks, etc (Bourdieu).
Economic capital ✔Correct Answer-Is immediately and directly convertible into money and may be
institutionalized in the form of property rights (Bourdieu).
Cultural capital ✔Correct Answer-Is convertible, on certain conditions, into economic capital and
may be institutionalized in the form of educational qualifications. Cultural knowledge, ideas, tastes,
prowess, skills. Measured, valued, and distributed differently in the society, which relates to social
inequality and social classes. (Bourdieu).
Social capital ✔Correct Answer-made up of social obligations ("connections"), which is convertible,
in certain conditions, into economic capital and may be institutionalized in the form of a title of
nobility. Is the aggregate of the actual or potential resources including membership in a group
(Bourdieu).
Racial capitalism ✔Correct Answer-the mode of capitalist development that has occurred through
the coincidence of the emergence of modern racism alongside key phases of capitalist expansion. It
is NOT is not the history of all racism or an account of how capitalism treats different 'racial groups'
but how the world made through racism shapes patterns of capitalist development (Bhattacharyya).
Racial Capital ✔Correct Answer-the value derives from one's racial identity. The constructed nature
and value of race (akin to perceived reputation). Worthiness of non-whiteness and the worthiness of
diversity {Leong}.
Capitalism ✔Correct Answer-Is a mode of production based on private ownership of the means of
production. Positions us as objects to each other and objects who are reduced to their potential
price in the form of the value that they might yield (or perhaps give access to) {Marx}.
Limitations of Bourdieu and Marx ✔Correct Answer-Overlooked the constructed differences
among different races → the racial character of capitalism.The rise of capitalism is inseparable from
colonization, slavery, and domestication of women. Appropriation of land and raw resources and
enslavement (labor) between colonies and Europe → development of capitalism
microaggression ✔Correct Answer-by which they mean one of those many sudden, stunning, or
dispiriting transactions that mar the days of women and folks of color (Delgado & Stafancic).
CRT movement ✔Correct Answer-A collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and
transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. builds on the insights of two previous
movements, critical legal studies and radical feminism (Delgado & Stefancic).
Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory ✔Correct Answer-Racism is ordinary, not aberrational—
"normal science," the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most
people of color in this country. Our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important
purposes, both psychic and material, for the dominant group.
, Social construction of race ✔Correct Answer-Racial catagories are fluid. Self-identification vs. other
people's perceptions vs. institutional identity as constructed. Methods include by/in the legal or
statistical system, by /through the media, in knowledge production (scholarly work ie. books).
Intersectionality ✔Correct Answer-the theoretical approach to understand the interconnected
nature of social categorizations (e.g. gender, race, class) as creating overlapping and interdependent
systems of social dominations {Crenshaw}.
Features of racism ✔Correct Answer-Ordinariness -means that racism is difficult to address or cure
because it is not acknowledged. Color-blind, or "formal," conceptions of equality "interest
convergence" or material determinism. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites
(materially) and working-class whites (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to
eradicate it.
race as technology ✔Correct Answer-shifts the focus from the what of race to the how of race,
from knowing race to doing race by emphasizing the similarities between race and technology.
Reveals how race functions as the "as," how it facilitates comparisons between entities classed as
similar or dissimilar (Chun).
Evolution of race ✔Correct Answer-15th century - Common decent (kinship; noble house, etc).
16th century - Geographical group of people with common physical characteristic (e.g. English). 18th
century - Scientific discovery/Industiralism/Capitalism (Linnaeus's taxonomy)
Doll Test ✔Correct Answer-used in Brown v. Board of Education to end educational Segregation,
performed in Italy. Children can recognize white/dark dolls, and tend to associate the darker doll
with negative qualities. Some re-used the results from doll test to justify the segregation - saying
keeping mixed kids together will lower self esteem and idenity unity.
Race and genetics ✔Correct Answer-21st century - The return of the scientific method in the form
of genetics. Conflating genetic information w/ lifestyle - Risks of making connections between
genetics and personality/ personal characteristics. The danger of "genetification of race" in popular
science - making race genetically determined through predictive traits.
Racial formation ✔Correct Answer-the process by which social, economic and political forces
determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by
racial meanings (Omi and Winant).
Orientalism ✔Correct Answer-objectification of the East, regardless of the accuracy or
thoroughness, to serve the purpose of the constructed binary between the East and the West and of
the institutions of imperialism and colonialism (Edward Said).
Techno-Orientalism ✔Correct Answer-persistent efforts to make the East as the alienated other,
and threat, because and in spite of the technological progress. The expressive vehicle (cultural
productions and visual representations) by which Western and Eastern nations articulate their fears,
desires, and anxieties.
Techno-orientalism ✔Correct Answer-a way in pop culture (e.g., cinema, novels)tends to portray a
futuristic world in a dystopian, bleak, and Asian-influenced fashion in pop culture. Associated with
xenophobia and racism, appropriation of Asian culture elements in the futuristic world and often
features racialized and dehumanized Asian female bodies.
