Diversity and Difference: Mid-Term Exam Part One: Definitions (25 points—5 point

Diversity and Difference: Mid-Term Exam
Part One: Definitions (25 points—5 points for each answer)
Define each of the following terms using the following steps.
a. Define the term in your own words.
b. Provide an example from the class materials (i.e. a quotation from a reading, a
component of a video, a comment from the discussion forum) to illustrate your
answer. Include a citation for the example you have chosen.
c. Explain how the example you’ve chosen illustrates your definition of the term.
Gender norms
intersectionality
oppression
white privilege
social construction
Part Two: Paragraphs on Individual Readings (20 points each)
Answer TWO of the following questions in 1-2 paragraphs (100—200 words
each). Use specific references to course materials in your answers.
1. What does La Güera mean, and why is it something valued in Cherie
Moraga’s family?
2. Select one of the anecdotes that Rankine shares in “You are in the Dark, in
the Car.” What happens in this story? How does she respond? What does
this story show us about racism?
3. What does the opening dialogue in Avicolli Mecca’s “He Defies You Still,”
show us about the main character’s life at school?
4. In “My Vassar College ID…,” Why is the story about the police being called
on a 15-year-old black boy in the library so important to Kiese Laymon?
5. According to Michael Omi and Howard Winant in “Racial Formation,” in
what ways has state law “quantified racial identity”?
6. Use Lorber’s “Night to His Day” to discuss what is important about seeing
gender as a social institution?
7. What are some of the issues that can be linked to being transgender,
according to Susan Stryker, and why?
Part Two: Essay on Key Concepts (35 points)
Answer one of the following questions in a short essay 300—500 words). Refer to
the course materials in your essay.
1. How effective are stories about everyday experiences in conveying the
pervasive quality of race, class, gender, and sexual constructions? Use one
or two of the course readings/videos we’ve looked at so far in your answer.
2. Analyze the connections between white privilege and systemic racism with
reference to course materials we’ve looked at so far.
3. Use one or two of the course materials to consider the concept of
intersectionality and its relevance to individual identity and systems of
power (For example, gender and sexuality in “He Defies You Still,” gende
and race in “Between the World and Me,” class and gender in “La Güera”).

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