The women in Hoang’s study of Vietnamese sex workers strategically darkened their skin to:
a. give the impression of a life of leisure.
b. reinforce their claim of having worked in the rice fields.
c. embody racialized femininities.
d. create more of a contrast with white Western businessmen.
c. embody racialized femininities.
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In their first major action, Americans helped __________.
a. reinforce a French offensive b. stall a German offensive c. liberate Belgium d. open a new front in Italy
In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, the Supreme Court ruled all of the following EXCEPT
a. segregation was constitutional if facilities were equal. b. laws cannot change racial instincts. c. segregation on rail cars in Louisiana was unconstitutional. d. no new laws of segregation could be passed without the Court's approval.
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
a. Texas b. California c. Kansas d. Missouri e. Oregon
How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic?
A) Slavery showed how poorly treated black women were. B) Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others. C) Slavery funded much of the Revolution, so it was part of the new republic. D) Slavery was a British institution and had no place in an independent America. E) People who fought in the war and enslaved others were too violent for a republic.