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Chapter 4: Test Bank

1. Miles, who is half Mexican American and half White American, has very light brown skin. He
was raised in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood, and he identifies himself as Mexican
American. However, his friends regard him as “White” because of his fair skin. His “Mexican
American” identity is
@ Learning objective: 1. Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and
identity in the context of globalization; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Place,
Cultural Space, and Identity; Question type: MC
a. ascribed identity.
*b. avowed identity.
c. personal identity.
d. cultural Identity.

Type: MR
2. Globalization changes the way we understand cultural space because
@ Learning objective: 1. Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and
identity in the context of globalization; Cognitive domain: Comprehension; Answer location:
Placing Culture and Cultural Space; Question type: MS
*a. historically, culture is rooted in particular location. In globalization, culture is de-
territorialized from the place of origin and re-territorialized in new locations.
*b. globalization creates hybrid cultural space where different cultures coexist in the same
location.
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c. in globalization, place and location are no longer important because cultures travel across
borders and change over time.
d. cultural space has become homogenized through globalization.

Type: MR
3. In Chapter 4, hip-hop culture is used as an example of how
@ Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct,
maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Comprehension; Answer
location: Displacing Culture and Cultural Space; Question type: MS
*a. people use cultural space (streets, walls, cities) to negotiate and reclaim their culture and
identity.
*b. culture travels across national borders and changes its meaning and form over time.
c. hip-hop culture is only authentic if it is created and performed by African American artists.
d. culture is rooted and fixed in a specific geographical space.

4. In various parts of the world, artists and musicians create their versions of hip-hop culture to
appeal to their audience and cultural values. This is an example of
@ Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct,
maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Comprehension; Answer
location: Global Hip-Hop Culture; Question type: MC
a. ethnocentrism.
*b. appropriation.
c. culture as a shared system of meaning.
d. hegemony.

Type: MR
5. Which is TRUE concerning place, cultural space, and identities?
@ Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct,
maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Comprehension; Answer
location: Place, Cultural Space, and Identity; Question type: MS
*a. People use cultural space to create avowed and ascribed identities.
b. The notion of identity is understood similarly in most places.
*c. Geographical location can intersect with social locations (i.e., race, class, gender) to create
locations of enunciation.
d. One’s cultural identity remains consistent regardless of which cultural space they are in.

6. Accessing news and images from distant and remote places and communicating anytime
through social media sites with friends around the world exemplify
@ Learning objective: 4. Describe the practice of bifocal vision to highlight the linkages between
“here” and “there” as well as the connections between the present and the past; Cognitive
domain: Comprehension; Answer location: Displacing Culture and Cultural Space; Question
type: MC
a. friendship networks.
b. media networks.
*c. time-space compression.
d. framing.
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Type: MR
7. Cultural space
@ Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct,
maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Comprehension; Answer
location: Cultural Space; Question type: MS
*a. shapes verbal and nonverbal communicative practices.
b. refers to the communication practices of nondominant groups.
*c. is constructed through verbal and nonverbal communication practices.
d. is the same thing as physical space.

Type: MR
8. Hip-hop culture, as it emerged in the South Bronx using communicative practices such as
tagging and rap, illustrates
@ Learning objective: 2 Explain how people use communicative practices to construct, maintain,
negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Case
Study: Hip-Hop Culture; Question type: MS
*a. the reclaiming of a location of enunciation.
b. a lack of identification with place.
c. an effort to fit into the dominant culture.
*d. the contested nature of cultural spaces.

9. Today, financial buildings are the highest and often most prominent buildings in metropolitan
areas around the world. This indicates that
@ Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct,
maintain, negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer
location: Cultural Space, Power, and Communication; Question type: MC
a. space is rarely used to signify power and control.
*b. the way cultures use space communicates power and signify access to resources.
c. financial buildings communicate meaning only about economic transactions.
d. cultural space only pertains to low-income neighborhoods.

10. Segregated cultural space

@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Cultural Space, Power, and Communication; Question type: MC
a. is primarily a phenomena of the past.
b. restructures and dismantles inequitable power relations.
*c. has been and is used to establish and maintain the hegemony of the dominant group.
d. is a natural part of cultural identification and membership.

11. Chinatown in San Francisco is a useful example of contested cultural space

@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Contested Cultural Space; Question type: MC
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*a. because of the history of conflict to resist the displacement of Chinatown.

b. because people from different cultures frequent Chinatown.
c. because there is a blend or mix of cultures in Chinatown.
d. because Chinatown is an authentic cultural space.

12. We can say that hip-hop cultural space is polysemic because

@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Contested Cultural Space; Question type: MC
a. there is only one meaning attached to hip-hop cultural space.
*b. multiple and often competing meanings are associated with hip-hop cultural space.
c. there is no real hip-hop cultural space.
d. many people share the same meaning about hip-hop cultural space.

13. The example of McDonald’s in Moscow described in the textbook is an illustration of

@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Hybrid Cultural Space; Question type: MC
*a. hybrid cultural space.
b. contested cultural space.
c. mixed cultural space.
d. segregated cultural space.

Type: MR
14. Hybrid cultural spaces are
@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Hybrid Cultural Space; Question type: MS
*a. sites of negotiation.
*b. sites of resistance.
*c. sites of transformation.
d. sites of emancipation.

15. Hybrid cultures and hybrid cultural spaces are characterized as

@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Hybrid Cultural Space; Question type: MC
a. highly practical, traditional and stable.
*b. developing and surviving as forms of collective resistance.
c. constructed in the context of equal power relations.
d. dominated by the most powerful group of people.

16. A Chicana feminist scholar, Gloria Anzaldúa, describes the fluid, contradictory, and creative
experience of living in what she calls the “Borderlands/borderlands.” Her experience exemplifies
how
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@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces.; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Hybrid Cultural Space; Question type: MC
a. culture is a site of shared meaning.
*b. cultural space can be created to speak and claim an oppositional identity.
c. cultural space is always ambiguous.
d. cultural space is always shaped by boundaries.

17. The weekly gathering of friends and family in an Iranian American home, where rituals,
food, and cultural practices from Iran are re-created to resist complete assimilation into the
dominant culture, is an example of
@ Learning objective: 3. Explain how cultures are simultaneously placed and displaced in the
global context leading to segregated, contested, and hybrid cultural spaces; Cognitive domain:
Application; Answer location: Hybrid Cultural Space; Question type: MC
a. contested cultural space.
*b. hybrid cultural space.
c. segregated cultural space.
d. cultural appropriation.

18. Michelle’s mother is African American and her father is White. She identifies as biracial.
However, people in the United States identify her as Black. The designation of Black as her
identity is
@ Learning objective: 1. Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and
identity in the context of globalization; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Place,
Cultural Space, and Identity; Question type: MC
*a. an ascribed identity.
b. an avowed and ascribed identity.
c. an avowed identity.
d. an additive identity.

19. McDonald’s is one of the most globalized corporations. If you visit their stores in other
countries, you will find menus that are unique to their local culture. This is an example of
@ Learning objective: 1. Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and
identity in the context of globalization; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Place,
Cultural Space, and Identity; Question type: MC
a. Americanization.
*b. glocalization.
c. ethnocentrism.
d. assimilation.

Type: E
20. Briefly explain avowed and ascribed identity. Provide an example of how cultural space
shapes your avowed and ascribed identities.
*a. Varies
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Learning objective: 1. Describe the relationships among culture, place, cultural space, and
identity in the context of globalization; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location: Place,
Cultural Space, and Identity; Question type: SA

Type: E
21. Briefly explain “glocalization” and provide an example.
*a. Varies
Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct, maintain,
negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location:
Glocalization: Simultaneous Forces of Globalization and Localization; Question type: SA

Type: E
22. Chapter 4 in the textbook focuses on cultural spaces. Drawing on this chapter and our
discussions in class, address the following: (a) Define cultural space and discuss how cultural
space is constructed through communication. (b) Using an example, discuss the relationship
between place, power, and location of enunciation. (c) What do we mean by hybrid cultural
space? Use an example to illustrate your answer.
*a. Varies
Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct, maintain,
negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Application; Answer location:
Glocalization: Simultaneous Forces of Globalization and Localization; Question type: SA

Type: E
23. What kind of cultural space do you have in your hometown? Discuss an example of
segregated, contested, or hybrid cultural space you find in your hometown. Also discuss who has
the power to shape the cultural space.
*a. Varies
Learning objective: 2. Explain how people use communicative practices to construct, maintain,
negotiate, and hybridize cultural spaces; Cognitive domain: Analysis; Answer location: Cultural
Space, Power, and Communication; Question type: SA