ANTH 2100 - Exam 2 UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Race - CORRECT ANSWER - A flawed system of classification, created, and recreated
over time, that uses a certain physical characteristics (such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape,
and eye color to divide the human populations into a few supposedly discrete biological groups.
This has no biological basis.
Miscegenation - CORRECT ANSWER - interracial marriage
white supremacy - CORRECT ANSWER - the belief that whites are biologically different
and superior to people of other races
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - Segregation laws throughout the South that
legally enforced boundaries between whites and blacks
Hypodescent - CORRECT ANSWER - sometimes called the "one drop of blood rule"; the
assignment of children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER - The desire to favor native inhabitants over new
immigrants
Racialization - CORRECT ANSWER - giving a racial character
Microaggressions - CORRECT ANSWER - common, everyday verbal or behavioral
indignities and slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about
someone's race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
Intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER - an analytic framework for assessing how factors
such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life chances and societal patterns of
stratification
, Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER - One of the most powerful identities that humans
develop: a sense of connection to a group of people who we believe share a common history,
culture, and (sometimes) ancestry and who are distinct from others outside the group
origin myth - CORRECT ANSWER - a story told about the founding and history of a
particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity
ethnic boundary marker - CORRECT ANSWER - a practice or belief, such as food,
clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not
situational negotiation of identity - CORRECT ANSWER - an individual's self-
identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location
identity entrepreneurs - CORRECT ANSWER - political, military, or religious leaders who
promote a worldview through the lens of ethnicity and use war, propaganda, and state power to
mobilize people against those whom they perceive as a danger
Genocide - CORRECT ANSWER - the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic
or religious group
ethnic cleansing - CORRECT ANSWER - efforts by representatives of one ethnic or
religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - the process through which minorities accept the
patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups
Multiculturalism - CORRECT ANSWER - a pattern of ethnic relations in which new
immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture and yet retain an
ethnic culture
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Race - CORRECT ANSWER - A flawed system of classification, created, and recreated
over time, that uses a certain physical characteristics (such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape,
and eye color to divide the human populations into a few supposedly discrete biological groups.
This has no biological basis.
Miscegenation - CORRECT ANSWER - interracial marriage
white supremacy - CORRECT ANSWER - the belief that whites are biologically different
and superior to people of other races
Jim Crow Laws - CORRECT ANSWER - Segregation laws throughout the South that
legally enforced boundaries between whites and blacks
Hypodescent - CORRECT ANSWER - sometimes called the "one drop of blood rule"; the
assignment of children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group
Nativism - CORRECT ANSWER - The desire to favor native inhabitants over new
immigrants
Racialization - CORRECT ANSWER - giving a racial character
Microaggressions - CORRECT ANSWER - common, everyday verbal or behavioral
indignities and slights that communicate hostile, derogatory, and negative messages about
someone's race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion
Intersectionality - CORRECT ANSWER - an analytic framework for assessing how factors
such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life chances and societal patterns of
stratification
, Ethnicity - CORRECT ANSWER - One of the most powerful identities that humans
develop: a sense of connection to a group of people who we believe share a common history,
culture, and (sometimes) ancestry and who are distinct from others outside the group
origin myth - CORRECT ANSWER - a story told about the founding and history of a
particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity
ethnic boundary marker - CORRECT ANSWER - a practice or belief, such as food,
clothing, language, shared name, or religion, used to signify who is in a group and who is not
situational negotiation of identity - CORRECT ANSWER - an individual's self-
identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location
identity entrepreneurs - CORRECT ANSWER - political, military, or religious leaders who
promote a worldview through the lens of ethnicity and use war, propaganda, and state power to
mobilize people against those whom they perceive as a danger
Genocide - CORRECT ANSWER - the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic
or religious group
ethnic cleansing - CORRECT ANSWER - efforts by representatives of one ethnic or
religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - the process through which minorities accept the
patterns and norms of the dominant culture and cease to exist as separate groups
Multiculturalism - CORRECT ANSWER - a pattern of ethnic relations in which new
immigrants and their children enculturate into the dominant national culture and yet retain an
ethnic culture
