Critical Race Theory: Gender Performance, Systemic Oppression and Intersectionality

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What is the process through which we learn about the social expectations, attitudes, and behaviors associated with our sex/gender?

What concept does Judith Butler describe as the assignment of sex and gender to a body, which is a performative act that constructs gender through repetitive performance?

What term describes a group-based system of oppression embedded within the practices of social, economic, and political institutions of a society?

What ideology offers cultural explanations for racial minorities' status in society and views some racial issues as natural phenomena, rejecting claims of systemic discrimination based on race?

What discourse denotes an end to a period of racial prejudice and discrimination?

What are images designed to naturalize and normalize ideologies and discourses about racial minority groups in order to solidify control over them?

What concept recognizes the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, gender, and class, and their relationship with overlapping and interlocking systems of discrimination or disadvantage?

What term describes stereotypes based on multiple categories of identity that intersect within media and popular culture, creating unique and specific narratives for marginalized groups?

What term refers to social justice projects that use a single-axis framework, further marginalizing those at the intersection of multiple systems of oppression?

What term describes overlapping structures of subordination that compound inequities and disadvantages?

What is the term for accumulated economic resources such as money and property, which can be used to secure cultural capital and access to social capital?

What is the term for accumulated connections and relationships through affiliations and group membership?

What is the term for social legitimation in the form of prestige, honor, prizes, and recognition?

What is the term for accumulated knowledge, tastes, and skills, often considered a form of self-investment?

What is the image of the faithful, obedient black female servant, depicted as an asexual surrogate mother who is loving, nurturing, and caring to white children within the family she serves?

What term describes the working-class, single-parent Black mother unable to fulfill traditional 'womanly' duties as caretakers of the home and child rearers?

What term describes Black single mothers with multiple children living in poverty who abuse drugs and/or rely on social welfare programs?

What term describes images of middle- and upper-middle-class professional Black women who embody contemporary politics of respectability, upright morality, and whose sexuality is confined within the context of heterosexual marriage?

What term describes the portrayal of women as hyper-sexual (Hot Señorita) and emotionally volatile (Spitfires)?

What term describes the depiction of women as domestic workers?

What term describes the absence, underrepresentation, or trivialization of a particular group within media?

What is the discourse or way of talking about and representing the Orient (East) and its people as 'the Other'?

What term describes racial representations that challenge or complicate earlier stereotypes and feed into an illusion of the U.S. as post-race or multicultural?

What term describes naturalized representations of events and situations relating to race, which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions?

What term depicts Asian women as quiet, modest, and sexually submissive?

What term portrays Asian women as alluring, fragile, obedient, and self-sacrificial?

What term represents a nun trustworthy, deceitful, cunning, mysterious villain who uses sex and/or sexuality for gain?

What is the perception of Asian Americans as lacking communication and social skills but being technologically savvy and workaholics?

What is the perception that Asian Americans have overcome oppression through success in education, attaining wealth, adhering to a strong work ethic, building and maintaining strong family relationships, and being law-abiding citizens?

What is the perception that Asian Americans are not full-fledged Americans?

What term describes the dominant masculine behavioral ideals and associated social practices within a given culture during a particular period?

What is an exaggerated form of masculine behavior that emphasizes toughness, violence, risk-taking, and callous attitudes towards women and sex?

What is a form of masculinity that positions men as objects of and for consumption?

What term describes masculinity that incorporates signifiers of femininity/masculinity and heterosexuality/homosexuality?

What term refers to the anxieties and frustrations some men feel because of the perceived erosion of masculine privilege within society?

What is a socially destructive conception of masculinity that glorifies aggression, violence, and the domination and subjugation of women, gay men, and men who exhibit feminine characteristics?

What term describes the way in which the visual arts and literature depict the world and women from a masculine point of view, presenting women as objects of male pleasure?

What term describes films that openly sexualize and display men's bodies and are targeted at male audiences/spectators?

What term describes the arousal of sexual feelings through contact with people of the same sex?

What is a gendered way of looking that draws upon homoerotic aesthetics to create tensions with hegemonic masculinity?

What term describes the expressive behaviors enacted within advertisements to signify femininity and masculinity?

What is a media frame that portrays women as caressing or stroking an object, person, or themselves?

What is a media frame that portrays women as not paying attention or with their eyes glazed over?

What term describes treating or condescending to someone as if they are still a young child?

What term refers to how the presentation of the female body in advertising links up with broader cultural definitions of femininity as passive and powerless?

What is a pose typically taken by females that is 'off center' and ungrounded, such as a head tilt or knee bend?

What is a way in advertisement to look submissive and inferior?

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