Assignment for 1/24/08

Articles 1 & 2

 

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 

____    1.    As noted in "Missing People and Others: Joining Together to Expand," the use of the Spanish language in the United States was proscribed either dejure or defacto. Dejure means:

a.	by mistake.
b.	by practice, or through political and economic pressures.
c.	by day.
d.	by rule, policy, or law.

 

 

____    2.    According to Arturo Madrid, what happens once minority individuals enter into institutional life?

a.	They are met with acceptance.
b.	Their participation is restricted.
c.	They passively participate.
d.	They take over the highest positions within the organization.

 

 

____    3.    The author believes that educators and those who are educated have a special responsibility for leading the struggle against:

a.	traditionalism, family values and alienation.
b.	marginalization, traditionalism and alienation.
c.	exclusion, alienation, marginalization.
d.	none of the above

 

 

____    4.    In "La Guera," Moraga's reflection on her earlier belief that in order to succeed, she needed to become educated enough to pass as white is an example of:

a.	stereotypes.
b.	racism.
c.	discrimination.
d.	internalized oppression.

 

 

____    5.    According to Moraga, real power is:

a.	unachievable.
b.	collective.
c.	solitary.
d.	none of the above

 

 

____    6.    According to Moraga, women of color and working class women often shrink from challenging ____and demanding that those who claim to be speaking for all women, be held accountable for their racism.

a.	white middle class men
b.	white middle class women
c.	other women of color
d.	white professional women

 

 

Essay

 

    7.    Who are the "missing people" to whom Madrid refers?

 

    8.    Discuss what it means to be the other.

 

    9.    Madrid describes minority individuals entering social institutions through the back door, front door, side door, and window. Discuss what he means by this and describe the institutional relations that often result.

 

    10.    Discuss what Moraga means by the statement, "It was through my mother's desire to protect her children from poverty and illiteracy that we became 'anglicized'..."