ETHS170C – American Ethnic Studies Cypress College Spring 2021 Hashima Midterm Exam Study Guide PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT CAREFULLY. The midterm exam is worth 15% of your overall final grade and will consist of two elements: ten multiple choice questions, worth 10 points (33% of the midterm grade), and one (1) short essay question worth 20 points (66 % of the midterm grade). Your completed submissions to both sections of the midterm due by 11:59 pm on Sunday, March 28th Section 1 – Multiple choice questions (10 points) This section consists of ten (10) multiple choice questions taken from the first six chapters of Spickard’s Almost All Aliens, and the following documentaries: Race: The Power of an Illusion, “The Story We Tell,” and “The House We Live In” (weeks 2 & 3) Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (all four episodes) There is a 30- minute time limit for this portion of the midterm. You will be given two (2) separate attempts to respond to the quiz, but WRONG answers will not be revealed until the 2nd attempt has been completed. The highest score on a single attempt will be counted as the grade for this portion of the midterm exam. You must finish the quiz by 11:59 pm on Sunday, March 28. Section 2 – short essay question (20 points) Your response on the short essay will be evaluated on overall coherence, and the strength of specific, detailed examples from the course materials (readings and documentaries) to support a historically accurate response to the prompt. You will be given a choice of two questions, and you must respond to one. While this is an open book exam, you will NOT be permitted to quote directly from the readings, although you should properly cite (author name only) your references to the readings, and any references MUST be adequately paraphrased and clearly explained so that the relevance of those references to your response is clear (in other words, I should not have to ask why you are using any example in your responses). General questions for review: • • • • How does the United States create and support a “racialized” definition of citizenship in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries? How does the “colonial/imperial” expansion of the United States in the 19th century contribute to a “racialization” of non-whites across the globe? How does “science” contribute to the racialization of whites and non-whites in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries How does the creation of a “Jim Crow” legal system in the post-Reconstruction U.S. south contribute to the continued racialization and exclusion of non-whites across the entire United States in the 19th and 20th century? Remember that you need to upload your completed response as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) document to Canvas by Sunday, March 28, 11:59 pm. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL LOSE ONE FULL LETTER GRADE (1 point) PER CALENDAR DAY.
