Geography 225 Midterm Questions and Verified
Answers
Stretched Households Correct Answer: this typically occurs when the husband goes to the US (from
Mexico) for farm work but the mother and children stay in Mexico
Social Reproduction/Production Correct Answer: idea of things we do on a daily and generational basis
to reproduce ourselves (individuals, workers, society, culture), comes from feminist theories drawing on
Marx theory, intersectional analysis
Intersectionality Correct Answer: analogy of a traffic intersection, black women are discriminated by
race and gender at once, an invisible movement in US feminism movement
Kimberlee Crenshaw Correct Answer: lawyer, legal theorist, how race oppression and gender oppression
interact in black women's lives
Global North/South Correct Answer: the North has less people and more money, and the South has more
people and less money, and this gap is getting more and more exaggerated
Uneven geographies Correct Answer: (uneven development)
Colonialism Correct Answer: 6 million slaves and much less European migration, settlers colonies,
triangle trade, indentured servants, late colonial period- slavery was the basis of planation and
commodity production until mid 19th century, after 1850 there was an explosion in volume of
international migration (massive # of Europeans), between 1850 and 1914 (WWI)
Colonial migration Correct Answer: early expressions of globalization, earlier migration have contributed
to the cultural hybridity of places
Chain Migration Correct Answer: emigrants from one village tend to cluster in same location, doing the
same kind of work (following kinship links, place and acquaintance links), ex Morganton and Carrboro
NC
White Privilege Correct Answer: a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from
on a daily basis beyond those common to all others, it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this
country
Skin Tone Correct Answer: example of Puerto Ricans in New York
, One- Drop Rule Correct Answer: (pg 20) if you have one drop of African America blood in you, not
matter how light skinned you are considered African American, very strict point of view of the US,
different in Mexican and other Latin countries
Census definitions of race Correct Answer: US used to use the one drop rule
Census Definition of indigeneity Correct Answer: Mexican cultural definition
Racial profiling Correct Answer: stereotyping based on race
Affirmative Action Correct Answer: give minorities and women equal chances in employment and
college opportunities
Title IX Correct Answer: sex equality and protection on college campuses
Relational/Dialectical thinking Correct Answer: late 19th century starting with Hegel and Marx
relational/dialectic thinking, relational thinking instead of binaries, help us shift to thinking about
processes, Hegel- slaves and master are two different categories but one does not exist with out the other,
defines a contradiction; Marx- capitalist and work are contradictory whole
Spatial division of labor Correct Answer: menial jobs in global south and white collar in global north
Gender division of labor Correct Answer: pink collar jobs like housekeeping and caregiving for men, and
more physically exerting jobs for men, also more manager or leader positions for men
International division of labor Correct Answer: US South for menial hard labor agricultural or factory
jobs, US North more white collar jobs
Household (nuclear household) Correct Answer: gender work, one person involved in GDP and wages,
other responsible for social reproduction, caring for old and young, teach kids values (not values)
Latinization Correct Answer: intermix with Latin customs (in the US, in NC)
Gender imbalance Correct Answer: (inside households) women pull the second shift, responsible for
working, caring for the children and the home, while men are expected to bring more money home from
work and typically assigned lawn work jobs
Carolina del Norte Correct Answer: is the product of labor recruitment, invisible at first (rural isolated
work sites), federal government seasonal visas
Answers
Stretched Households Correct Answer: this typically occurs when the husband goes to the US (from
Mexico) for farm work but the mother and children stay in Mexico
Social Reproduction/Production Correct Answer: idea of things we do on a daily and generational basis
to reproduce ourselves (individuals, workers, society, culture), comes from feminist theories drawing on
Marx theory, intersectional analysis
Intersectionality Correct Answer: analogy of a traffic intersection, black women are discriminated by
race and gender at once, an invisible movement in US feminism movement
Kimberlee Crenshaw Correct Answer: lawyer, legal theorist, how race oppression and gender oppression
interact in black women's lives
Global North/South Correct Answer: the North has less people and more money, and the South has more
people and less money, and this gap is getting more and more exaggerated
Uneven geographies Correct Answer: (uneven development)
Colonialism Correct Answer: 6 million slaves and much less European migration, settlers colonies,
triangle trade, indentured servants, late colonial period- slavery was the basis of planation and
commodity production until mid 19th century, after 1850 there was an explosion in volume of
international migration (massive # of Europeans), between 1850 and 1914 (WWI)
Colonial migration Correct Answer: early expressions of globalization, earlier migration have contributed
to the cultural hybridity of places
Chain Migration Correct Answer: emigrants from one village tend to cluster in same location, doing the
same kind of work (following kinship links, place and acquaintance links), ex Morganton and Carrboro
NC
White Privilege Correct Answer: a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from
on a daily basis beyond those common to all others, it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this
country
Skin Tone Correct Answer: example of Puerto Ricans in New York
, One- Drop Rule Correct Answer: (pg 20) if you have one drop of African America blood in you, not
matter how light skinned you are considered African American, very strict point of view of the US,
different in Mexican and other Latin countries
Census definitions of race Correct Answer: US used to use the one drop rule
Census Definition of indigeneity Correct Answer: Mexican cultural definition
Racial profiling Correct Answer: stereotyping based on race
Affirmative Action Correct Answer: give minorities and women equal chances in employment and
college opportunities
Title IX Correct Answer: sex equality and protection on college campuses
Relational/Dialectical thinking Correct Answer: late 19th century starting with Hegel and Marx
relational/dialectic thinking, relational thinking instead of binaries, help us shift to thinking about
processes, Hegel- slaves and master are two different categories but one does not exist with out the other,
defines a contradiction; Marx- capitalist and work are contradictory whole
Spatial division of labor Correct Answer: menial jobs in global south and white collar in global north
Gender division of labor Correct Answer: pink collar jobs like housekeeping and caregiving for men, and
more physically exerting jobs for men, also more manager or leader positions for men
International division of labor Correct Answer: US South for menial hard labor agricultural or factory
jobs, US North more white collar jobs
Household (nuclear household) Correct Answer: gender work, one person involved in GDP and wages,
other responsible for social reproduction, caring for old and young, teach kids values (not values)
Latinization Correct Answer: intermix with Latin customs (in the US, in NC)
Gender imbalance Correct Answer: (inside households) women pull the second shift, responsible for
working, caring for the children and the home, while men are expected to bring more money home from
work and typically assigned lawn work jobs
Carolina del Norte Correct Answer: is the product of labor recruitment, invisible at first (rural isolated
work sites), federal government seasonal visas
