Deck 2: Systems of Privilege and Inequality

Question 1

An economically privileged, heterosexual white man can be classified as a target member in groups where difference is stratified.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Sexual terrorism is the threat of rape and sexual assault that controls primarily lesbians' lives.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Being a member of a target group implies being in a position of subordination vis-à-vis the mythical norm.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The term for the process whereby individuals direct the resentment and anger they have about their situation onto those who are of equal or lesser status is horizontal hostility.

Question 5

The "bootstrap myth" implies that everyone deserves to have an equal piece of the pie within a democracy.

Question 6

The United Nations recognizes crimes against women as hate crimes.

Question 7

Imperialism is defined as the confluence of ethnocentrism and misogyny.

Question 8

"Micro" means focusing on the level of individuals and "macro" means focusing on the large-scale, societal levels.

Question 9

Institutions can be defined as messages that shape our understandings of social life.

Question 10

Categories such as gender, race, and sexual orientation are socially constructed.

Question 11

Systems of power and privilege are encoded in language.

Question 12

The fear and dislike of lesbians and gay men is the working definition of which term?

A) Misogyny
B) Homophobia
C) Homoeroticism
D) Gynophobia

Question 13

As explained in Chapter 2, hate groups in the U.S. include all but which of the following?

A) Ku Klux Klan
B) Christian Identity Movement
C) Racist Skinhead
D) Neo-Confederate
E) None; all of the above are U.S. hate groups

Question 14

Institutions pattern systems of inequality and privilege in which of the following ways

A) Assign various roles
B) Interconnect with each other
C) Meet everyone's needs equally
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 15

The term for the hatred of women is

A) Misogyny
B) Homophobia
C) Androcentrism
D) Sexism

Question 16

The cultural acceptance of men being able to date much younger women is an example of privilege associated with which two systems of inequality and privilege?

A) Sexism and racism
B) Sexism and ableism
C) Sexism and ageism
D) Ableism and sexism

Question 17

Regimes of truth are also known as

A) Categories of meaning
B) Essentialist perspectives
C) Institutional patterning
D) Disruptive ideologies

Question 18

Examples of internal colonialism include:

A) Importation of black slaves
B) Removal of native people from indigenous lands
C) Classification of migrants from Mexico as illegal
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 19

The term "queer" has included different meanings, including

A) Odd
B) Sexually dissident
C) Normal
D) Heteronormative
E) Both (a) and (b)
F) Both (c) and (d)
G) All of the above
H) None of the above

Question 20

The bootstrap myth is a discourse of U.S. institutional power that

A) Guarantees everyone the same opportunity to succeed
B) Blames an individual's lack of success on structural inequalities
C) Renders invisible the bigger system of structural inequalities
D) Supports capitalist aims
E) Both (a) and (b)
F) Both (c) and (d)
G) All of the above
H) None of the above

Question 21

The "psy sciences" are a form of institutional power because they

A) Classify individuals as "normal" or "deviant"
B) Are race neutral
C) Are gender neutral
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 22

Intersectionality is a key concept in the field of WGS because it

A) Focuses on individuals rather than institutions
B) Focuses on institutions rather than individuals
C) Considers "micro" and "macro" influences on people's lives
D) Centers straight, white women as the focus of scholarly inquiry

Question 23

Challenging our assumptions about privilege and inequality requires us to consider

A) Ways language shapes and reflects privilege
B) Who is excluded from the "mythical norm"
C) How institutions affect our lives
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (c) and (d)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 24

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins quotes a Black woman who said that while "the white woman is the black man's mule, the black woman is his dog."

Question 25

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins describes the institutional, symbolic, and individual dimensions of oppression.

Question 26

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins emphasizes the importance of "both/and" thinking when considering issues of privilege and oppression.

Question 27

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Hill Collins attempts to reconceptualize race, class, and gender as categories of analysis. She writes that traditional approaches to these issues tend to be based upon certain premises. These premises are

A) Misogynous attitudes
B) Either/or thinking
C) Ranking of differences
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of above
G) None of the above

Question 28

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-Which of the following examples was used by Patricia Hill Collins as a way to explain systems of privilege and inequality and issues of entitlement?

A) Helping another student pick out a sweater
B) Joining another student in a rally for equality
C) Deciding with another student what to order in a restaurant
D) Sharing decisions with another student about paying bills

Question 29

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins writes about the symbolic dimension of systems of oppression. This is the same as the

A) Institutional realm
B) Individual realm
C) Structured realm
D) Ideological realm

Question 30

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins makes three suggestions for overcoming barriers of inequality and privilege. Which of her suggestions are included below?

A) Creating coalitions around common causes
B) Socializing women to succeed in the public world
C) Building empathy
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (a) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 31

Reading "Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection" Patricia Hill Collins
-In "Toward a New Vision," Patricia Hill Collins compares the university to a plantation in order to

A) Make readers feel guilty
B) Provide a contemporary example of institutional privilege
C) Show the relationship between gender, race, and class
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 32

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Intersectionality (Vivian M. May/"Intersectionality") focuses specifically on the issue of interracial marriage.

Question 33

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") makes the case for the confluence of multiple forms of oppression.

Question 34

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques which author known for her classic article "Oppression"?

A) Gloria Steinem
B) Marilyn Frye
C) Betty Friedan
D) bell hooks

Question 35

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") critiques the article "Oppression" because the author does which of the following?

A) Takes a "pop-bead" approach
B) Assumes gender is isolatable from other facets of identity
C) Ignores men's multiple locations in systems of privilege and inequality
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 36

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") gives a "snapshot" of intersectionality. Which of the following is not included in this snapshot?

A) Considering lived experience as a criterion of meaning
B) Shifting toward an understanding of complex subjectivity
C) Reconceptualizing heteronormativity as the key to understanding intersectionality
D) Challenging false universals

Question 37

Reading "Intersectionality" Vivian M. May
-Vivian M. May ("Intersectionality") is concerned that WGS applies the concept of intersectionality in a way that

A) Focuses on race but excludes gender
B) Oversimplifies complex concepts
C) Suppresses multiplicity
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 38

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde
-Audre Lorde, author of "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," is a black, lesbian mother and poet.

Question 39

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde
-Audre Lorde, author of "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," emphasizes that our children need to resemble or learn to be like each other in order to work together for a future they will share.

Question 40

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde
-Audre Lorde's essay "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" illustrates which of the following?

A) Problems associated with horizonal hostility
B) Problems associated with heterosexism
C) Problems associated with racism
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All the above
G) None of the above

Question 41

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde
-In her essay "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," Audre Lorde makes which of the following arguments?

A) Racial oppression is the foundation for all other oppressions
B) Oppression of one group threatens the members of all groups
C) We are only responsible for protecting those who are normal
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 42

Reading 10 "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression" Audre Lorde
-When Audre Lorde writes, "when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you," in "There is No Hierarchy of Oppression," she attempts to

A) Connect all oppressions
B) Unite readers from diverse groups
C) Incite fear in the Ku Klux Klan
D) Show that she is normal
E) Both (a) and (b)
F) Both (b) and (c)
G) All the above
H) None of the above

Question 43

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran
-Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") self-identifies as a middle-class woman explaining white privilege to a broke white person.

Question 44

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran
-Gina Crosley-Corcoran's essay "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" responds to Peggy McIntosh's famous article on white privilege.

Question 45

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran
-Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person") argues that white privilege

A) Should not be confused with class privilege
B) Should make white people feel guilty
C) Protects white people from all other oppressions
D) Does not relate intersectionality

Question 46

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran
-According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), intersectionality can help us

A) Ignore white privilege
B) Destroy white privilege
C) Complicate our understanding of white privilege
D) See that class privilege is more significant than white privilege

Question 47

Reading "Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person" Gina Crosley-Corcoran
-According to Gina Crosley-Corcoran ("Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person"), recognizing our own privilege means

A) Being able to define intersectionality in our own words
B) Acknowledging that we haven't really worked hard
C) Admitting that we are big jerks
D) Being aware of the opportunities we have that we didn't earn

Question 48

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport
-Robert Bird and Frank Newport ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") argue that U.S. social classes are made up of well-defined, well-understood categories.

Question 49

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport
-Robert Bird and Frank Newport ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") note that a person's gender affects the way they describe their social class.

Question 50

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport

-In "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?," Robert Bird and Frank Newport argue that which of the following factors determine the way people describe their social class?

A) Gender and marital status
B) Sexual orientation and pet ownership
C) Education and age
D) Political affiliation and criminal record

Question 51

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport
-Robert Bird and Frank Newport's chart on the top of p. 79 ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") tells us which of the following?

A) People who earn between $50 and 74K per year are most likely to describe themselves as working class
B) People who earn between $20 and 29K per year are most likely to describe themselves as lower class
C) People who earn more than *250K per year are most likely to describe themselves as upper class
D) People who earn between $40 and $149K per year are most likely to describe themselves as middle class

Question 52

Reading "What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?" Robert Bird and Frank Newport
-Robert Bird and Frank Newport's chart on the bottom of p. 79 ("What Determines How Americans Perceive Their Social Class?") tells us which of the following?

A) The less education a person has, the more likely they are to describe themselves as upper class
B) The more education a person has, the more likely they are to describe themselves as upper class
C) More people describe themselves as lower class than any other category
D) More people describe themselves as upper class than any other category

Question 53

Reading "Cisgender Privilege" Evin Taylor
-Evin Taylor ("Cisgender Privilege") uses the "invisible knapsack" model of Peggy McIntosh in this reading.

Question 54

Reading "Cisgender Privilege" Evin Taylor
-Evin Taylor ("Cisgender Privilege") focuses on the intersections of gender and race.

Question 55

Reading "Cisgender Privilege" Evin Taylor
-When Evin Taylor ("Cisgender Privilege") writes "gendered privilege is experienced differently depending on the situation and the individual people involved," which of the following concepts are being described?

A) Heteronormativity
B) Homophobia
C) Sexism
D) Intersectionality

Question 56

Reading "Cisgender Privilege" Evin Taylor
-The Latin prefix "cis" (Evin Taylor/"Cisgender Privilege") means literally

A) Out of
B) On this side
C) Before
D) After

Question 57

Reading "Cisgender Privilege" Evin Taylor
-Evin Taylor's ("Cisgender Privilege") list of 50 privileges of cisgender people shows the following:

A) Cisgender privilege is more significant than white privilege
B) People who are gender nonconforming have a difficult time accessing health care
C) Cisgender people take many privileges for granted
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 58

Reading "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" Ellie Mamber
-The women in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" is on the lookout to attract young men in their 20s.

Question 59

Reading "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" Ellie Mamber
-The woman in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" hopes to attract men so that she can reject them.

Question 60

Reading "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" Ellie Mamber
-The woman in the poem "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" is 70 years old.

Question 61

Reading "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" Ellie Mamber
-The poem, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says," by Ellie Mamber illustrates which of the following concepts?

A) Double standard of aging
B) Age-illness connection
C) Age-plastic surgery connection
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 62

Reading "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says" Ellie Mamber
-The poem, "Don't Laugh, It's Serious She Says," by Ellie Mamber describes which of the following concepts?

A) Sexism
B) Looksism
C) Ageism
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 63

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-Teodor Mladenov's article "Disability and Social Justice" is a response to the Leap Manifesto.

Question 64

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-In his article "Disability and Social Justice," Teodor Mladenov argues that disability is not a category of oppression on the same level of gender, race, and class.

Question 65

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-In his article "Disability and Social Justice," Teodor Mladenov argues society's definition of disability plays a key role in sustaining capitalism.

Question 66

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-According to Teodor Mladenov ("Disability and Social Justice"), which issues does Nancy Fraser highlight in her articles about social justice:

A) Affirmative action, parity of participation, ableism
B) Economic redistribution, cultural recognition, political representation
C) Political parity, practical-activist, critical-theoretical
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 67

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-The focus on self-sufficiency devalues women and disabled people because we/they

A) Are less likely to work for wages than men
B) Are more likely to work for wages than men
C) Are more likely to provide or need unpaid care, assistance, or support
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 68

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-Embracing a transnational perspective can be transformative for disability studies because it acknowledges that

A) Capitalist consumption in the Global North negatively impacts the physical bodies of people in the global South
B) There are people with disabilities all over the world
C) Nancy Fraser's argument was a good one
D) Working conditions should be improved all over the world

Question 69

Reading "Disability and Social Justice" Teodor Mladenov
-Teodor Mladenov ("Disability and Social Justice") argues that "disregarding disability risks enhancing injustice for all" because

A) When disabilities are defined narrowly, working conditions decrease for everyone
B) When giving and receiving care is stigmatized, all workers suffer
C) Disregarding disability in the U.S. means also disregarding disabilities sustained throughout the global economy
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 70

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris
-In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris mocks the use of disabled parking spaces.

Question 71

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris
-In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris argues that parking is easier for people categorized as disabled.

Question 72

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris
-In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris argues that society views disabled people as abnormal.

Question 73

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris
-In "Poems with Disabilities," when Jim Ferris describes the moment in which
"suddenly everything/
Changes, the world tilts/
A little, angle of vision/
Jumps…"
He is describing the moment when readers realize

A) Cancer affects all of us
B) Handicapped parking is important
C) We all die a little bit every day
D) Disability is a normal part of our lives

Question 74

Reading "Poems with Disabilities" Jim Ferris
-In "Poems with Disabilities," Jim Ferris notes that

A) People who are disabled are always easy to spot
B) Sometimes you can't tell by looking at people that they are disabled
C) Disabled parking is a privilege
D) Both (a) and (b)
E) Both (b) and (c)
F) All of the above
G) None of the above