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What is described in the text as "an invisible package of unearned assets" that are the legacy of generations of racial discrimination?

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White Privlige

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The specific inherited genetic patterns of a person or organism are called its:

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genotype.

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A historical term meant to belittle and vilify "mixed" marriages is:

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miscegenation.

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Personal prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory actions based on race constitute:

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individual racism.

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What rule assigns the children of racially "mixed" unions to the subordinate group?

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hypodescent

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Originally, this term referred to a distinct group of people with a shared place of origin, but it is now most commonly used to refer to a country.

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nation

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When part of an ethnic group splits off or two groups combine to form a new group that identifies itself separately, this is known as:

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ethnogenesis

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Efforts by representatives of one ethnic or religious group to remove or destroy another group in a particular geographic area are known as:

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Ethnic Cleansing.

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An individual's self-identification with a particular group that can shift according to social location is known as:

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Situational Negotiation of Identity

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Sometimes a group of people breaks away from an ethnic group to form a new identity, and, in the past, two ethnic groups have combined to form a new and unique identity. These are examples of:

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Ethnogenesis

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A person who believes that Italians are somehow "inferior" and therefore refuses to give an Italian person a job is demonstrating:

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individual racism.

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Despite different societies' efforts to divide people into different biologically discrete groups, genetic evidence shows that human variation is:

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clinal.

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Anthropological research reveals that most ethnic groups and nations are recent historical creations, our connection to people within these groups is relatively new, and our shared traditions are recently invented. In addition, most members will never meet each other. Therefore, most nations today are:

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imagined communities.

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As part of a territorial conflict in Bosnia, ethnic Croats expelled, imprisoned, or killed the Muslim people who they had lived peacefully next door to for more than five hundred years. This illustrates the concept of:

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ethnic cleansing.

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The Indian American community has broken down many old barriers once held in India, but has chosen to deny efforts by the members of the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (SALGA) to participate in the India Day Parade. This illustrates the concept of:

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ethnic boundary markers.

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Gender stereotypes are defined as:

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culturally based preconceived notions about the attributes of differences between, and proper roles for, men and women.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling's analysis of biological sexual identity identifies:

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five sexes, including intersexuals.

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The phrases "boys will be boys" and "it's a girls' thing" reflect gender:

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stereotypes.

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Gender is defined as:

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the expectation of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes.

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Gender ideology is defined as:

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a set of cultural ideas about the essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification.

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________ is gender identity displayed through action.

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Discourse

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Geneticists have been able to successfully identify:

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no gene or cluster of genes that determines sexuality.

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Contemporary anthropologists study sexuality:

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in cultures worldwide, including western cultures.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of the attempt to regulate aspects of sexuality by cultural institutions such as the government?

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age of licensed driver

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All of the following are examples of sexuality in contemporary media and politics, EXCEPT:

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the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria

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Sexuality involves:

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both personal choices and cultural ideas.

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According to contemporary cultural anthropologists, humans in most cultures engage in sexual activity:

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both for procreation and fun.

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The Victorian ideal of sexuality was heavily influenced by which of the following:

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Christian Teachings.

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The restudy of women's role in the Trobriand Island exchanges indicated that:

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Women and men played complementary roles in the exchange of foods.

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Sex tourists in the Dominican Republic are typically:

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White European men.

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Which type of marriage between two individuals is negotiated in order to form economic and political alliances between larger kinship groups?

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Arranged.

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Which of the following phenomenon is currently placing stress on kinship systems worldwide?

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globalization.

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Which of the following types of descent groups traces kinship through both the mother and the father?

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ambilineal.

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Looking cross-culturally, anthropologists argue that:

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definitions of marriage vary across cultures and over time.

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Individuals learn basic patterns of human behavior from their families in a process termed:

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enculturation.

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Which of the following types of marriage consists of one individual married to one other individual only (most commonly one man married to one woman)?

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Monogamy

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Which of the following is a descent group that is constructed through the mother's side of the family?

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matrilineal

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Which of the following builds kinship ties between two people who are not typically immediate biological kin?

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Marriage

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Kinship includes:

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biological descent and marriage alliances, but also practices such as fostering and fictive kin.

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Which type of assisted reproductive technology involves the implantation of a woman's egg that has been fertilized in a laboratory?

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in vitro fertilization.

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Cousins who are children of a mother's brother or father's sister are considered which type of cousins?

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cross-cousins

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Early anthropologists identified how many primary systems used to classify relatives in the parental generation, including the bifurcate merging system?

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four.

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One way in which humans construct kinship groups is by tracking genealogical:

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descent.

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The incest taboo-rules that forbid sexual relations with close relatives such as siblings and parents-is:

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universal across all cultures in the world.

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Most people in the world practice which type of descent as their primary strategy to track kin group membership?

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Patrilineal

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