WGSS exam

Which of the following are examples discussed in the reading or lecture of how nationality can be defined or narrativized?

Yad Vashem

Archaeology

Captivity narratives

Tony Dokhoupil thought The Message was a fair and even-handed presentation of the problems of Israel/Palestine.

true or false

False

Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks that Apartheid is an appropriate term for Israel's policies with respect to the Palestinians.

true or false

True

Ta-Nehisi Coates objects to the idea that race is a social construction because that paradigm implies that race is fake and has no material effects.

true or false

False

Ta-Nehisi Coates' work has been banned in some school systems because it asks students to grapple with what some policy-makers term "divisive concepts."

true or false

True

Kim Tallbear argues that terms like "queer" or "genderqueer" are impositions from outside Indigenous thought and communities as heterosexuality or nuclear families.

true or false

true

true or False: Rufus is a Black slave boy.

false

Spot the FALSE statement.

 

Kevin is Black.

 

Rufus is friends with a free Black child, Alice.

 

Rufus knows a great deal about violence and revenge.

 

Dana has to keep Rufus and Alice alive long enough for Rufus to impregnate Alice, or risk not being born herself.

kevin is black

Which of the following are part of the history of US-Indian relations? Select all the statement that are true.

 

Violence, war, and massacres.

 

Taking land.

 

Water boarding.

 

Negotiating treaties.

Violence, war, and massacres.

 

Taking land.

 

Negotiating treaties.

Kindred came out about the same time as the "I'd like to buy the world a coke" commercial.

 

True

 

False

true

What ends Dana's time-travel?

 

Abolition of slavery

 

The birth of Hagar, Dana's ancestor

 

Kevin's insistence that she stay home with him

 

Rufus's death

rufus death

In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa shows that U.S. citizens can get deported to Mexico.

 

True

 

False

True

During Dana's interaction with Weylin in the chapter "The Storm," Weylin lashes out and demeans Dana after she asserts her refusal of being beaten again without consequences. As she leaves, Dana takes a moment to reflect on how she has no enforceable rights that could protect her from violent enforcers of racial oppression. Which of the following is not a potential perpetrator of racial violence that she considers as she leaves Weylin?

 

Weylin's neighbors

 

Slaver patrollers

 

Weylin himself

 

Other enslaved people

 

Police officials

other ensalved people

Black feminists writing in the 1970s and 80s like Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler didn't want to say that enslaved African and African-descended women often felt ambivalent about having children because it would make them seem like they weren't really women, were unnatural or trans.

 

True

 

False

false

Taking people's children, especially children of color, is the oldest reproductive rights issue in North America.

 

True

 

False

true

How did Milton Matson become a freak show performer?

 

He was geek who bit the heads off chickens.

 

He was arrested for wearing "male attire."

 

He was a fire- and sword-swallower.

 

He was African and recruited as an "ethnographic freak."

 

He was arrested for wearing "male attire."

Why is it complicated to think about the history of transgender people?

The word itself is relatively new, so people who seem to fit the category would not have used the word themselves.

Laws regulating cross-dressing appeared at about the same time as "ugly laws" banning people with disabilities from public spaces and laws banning public nudity.

true or false

true

Which of the following are not key elements of the American Plan applied to countries/territories in the Caribbean and Latin America?

 

Dishonorably discharged men who sought sex workers' services

 

Medical interventions forced onto incarcerated women

 

Arrested and incarcerated women accused of sex work

 

Deportation of non-citizen women convicted of sex work

 

Prohibition/suppression or regulation of the prostitution sector

Dishonorably discharged men who sought sex workers' services

Why could incarcerated women in the Caribbean not reject medical treatments administered by US officials?

 

They were convinced that the treatments would work

 

They had the status of a prisoner that lacked the freedom to choose

 

They listened to local religious leaders who asked them to

 

They believed that the treatments would reduce prison time

 

They needed the money from medical experiments

 

They had the status of a prisoner that lacked the freedom to choose

Which of the following narratives of "white slavery" is accredited as the first explicit notion that white sex workers were/are slaves?

 

Victor Hugo's letter to Josephine Butler addressing "white slavery" in Europe

 

The Greek Slave statue that was made to illustrate Turkish conquest in the Greek War for Independence

 

Anti-Indigenous claims that Indigenous peoples burned white women at the stake

 

The Mann Act's targeting aimed at men of color travelling with white women

 

Bartley Campbell's nationally toured play, The White Slave

Victor Hugo's letter to Josephine Butler addressing "white slavery" in Europe

 

Which of the following stereotypes were used to discredit Black mothers throughout the period of enslavement by suggesting that they were neither pure nor virtuous, but rather ruled by their sexual proclivities, particularly sexual excess?

 

The Jezebel

 

The Mystical Woman

 

The Mammy

 

The Sapphire

 

The Welfare Queen

The Jezebel

 

Which statement best describes how Dorothy Roberts narrates the origins of the U.S. child welfare system and its uses?

 

It started as a way for white charities in the 1800s to help poor children avoid harsh labor conditions.

 

It was meant to protect all children equally, but was hard to enforce as different regions had different modes of enforcing rules.

 

It was designed to give enslaved Black families legal rights to keep their children.

 

It has roots in slavery, where Black children were treated as property and could be taken from their families to benefit enslavers.

It has roots in slavery, where Black children were treated as property and could be taken from their families to benefit enslavers.

Some mixture of fear, loathing, and desire seemed to characterize the motivations of Robert Aaron Long, who shot six Asian migrant massage workers and two others in 2021. These feelings had a history. Which of the following was a precursor to that event?

 

The denial of visas to workers suspected of having bubonic plague

 

The 1875 Page Act restricting immgration

 

The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798

 

Eugenics

The 1875 Page Act restricting immgration

 

Dorothy Roberts thinks the foster care system should be abolished.

 

True

 

False

true

According to Finn Enke's "Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s," which of these prominent feminists furthered the idea that trans women are "she-males," wished to exclude trans women from the feminist movement?

 

 

Gloria Anzaldua

 

Sandy Stone

 

Janice Raymond

 

Beth Elliott

 

Pauli Murray

Janice Raymond

According to Anne Koedt, which of the following 'man maintained' myths about the vagina/clitoris' best describes men's fear that the clitoris may be a threat to men's masculinity?

 

A clitoral orgasm makes lesbianism an equally viable sexual option

 

The failure to achieve a vaginal orgasm marks women as sexually immature

 

The clitoris removes women's sexual agency

 

The penis is the epitome of masculinity and the clitoris is too penis-like

 

Most women prefer penile penetration

The penis is the epitome of masculinity and the clitoris is too penis-like

People talked about sex a lot in the 1970s.

 

True

 

False

true

The people radical feminists harbored suspicions of included:

 

socialists, anarchists, and anti-imperialists

 

women's studies professors, other academics, and intellectuals

 

sex workers, butch/femme lesbians, and drag queens

 

werewolves, vampires, and fairies

sex workers, butch/femme lesbians, and drag queens

Finn Enke believes the most important thing for us to know about seventies feminism is that it excluded trans women and women of color.

 

True

 

False

false