Dietary restriction among observant Jews

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1. What did sociologist Pierre Bourdieu say about the “true freedom of sociology”? Please provide the entire quote.
2. How did colonial marriages differ from our modern-day notion of marriage?
3. After he was beaten by a cruel master, what was the advice that Jacob’s father gave him?
4. List and describe at least 3 ways in which enslaved Black women’s bodies were controlled.
5. Why was it impossible for enslaved persons to love their spouses and children “unreservedly”?
6. How did white society control the African American family after slavery?
7. What did the anti-miscegenation laws make illegal?
8. What was the one-drop rule?
9. Which 2 twentieth-century events helped to erode parental influence over children and masculine influence over women? Explain how each did this.
10. Which institution made it possible for many gay men to “come out”? How did this happen?
11. What happened to Richard and Mildred Loving? (you should know their story)
12. Which race/ethnic group has the highest rate of first marriage of never married women? (fig. 10.3)
13. List two reasons that, as a rule, African American women do not marry non-African American men?
14. Regarding online dating, according to Figure 10.4, who are Asian women more likely to respond to? White men? Hispanic men? Black men?
15. What reasons do Asian women give for not dating Asian men?
16. What reasons do Asian men give for not dating Asian women?
17. Which state has the highest number of individuals who identify as multiracial? (fig. 10.5)
18. What did journalist Richard Cohen write about the mayor of NYC, Bill de Blasio? (please provide the entire quote)
19. List the incidents experienced by sociologist Heather Dalmadge because of her marriage to an African American man.
20. What is cultural labor? To which areas of life does it apply?
21. What percent of youth are separated from their parents because of the immigration process itself?
22. Are teen birth rates going up or down? African American birthrates?
23. When meeting someone for the first time, how do African Americans and whites differ in terms of the questions they ask?
24. Why has the prohibition against eating pork remained a dietary restriction among observant Jews? (hint: NOT Leviticus)
25. What is the thesis of Amy Wilkin’s book Wannabes, Goths, and Christians?