"The early cooking of southern food was primarily done by blacks, men and women. In the home, in hotels, in boardinghouses, on boats, on trains, and at
... [Show More] the White House. Cooking is hard and demanding. It was then, and it still is now." Who wrote this statement?
a. Matt and Ted Lee
b. Sean Brock
c. Edna Lewis
d. Sara Franklin
c. Edna Lewis
Combining various disciplinary perspectives, theory, and methodologies to study something is an example of what kind of scholarship?
a. Ethnographic
b. Multidisciplinary
c. Quantitive
d. Interdisciplinary
d. Interdisciplinary
Which of the following is NOT a defining element of the "pastoral south"?
a. Technological change
b. A slow, simple, pleasurable life
c. An assertion of the superiority of rural virtues
d. Interracial harmony
a. Technological change
Where are the two restaurants that Rebecca Skloot profiles in "Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town"?
a. Freetown, Virginia
b. New Martinsville, West Virginia
c. New Orleans, Louisiana
d. Clarksdale, Mississippi
b. New Martinsville, West Virginia
Which of the following is an adequate definition of terroir?
a. Fear of outsiders
b. Regional identity
c. The love of place
d. The taste of place
d. The taste of place
How does the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan define "place"?
a. "Where people hang out"
b. "Humanized space"
c. "Critical and globalized"
d. "Socially constructed"
b. "Humanized space"
What does it mean to have a "critical perspective" when studying southern food?
a. Evaluating the quality of ingredients and dishes in southern cuisine.
b. Taking a negative view of the South and southern food.
c. Thoughtfully examining the narratives and "imaginaries" connected to southern food, and not basing ideas on stereotypes.
d. Being sure to consider only the most essential elements of southern food.
c. Thoughtfully examining the narratives and "imaginaries" connected to southern food, and not basing ideas on stereotypes.
According to Joassart-Marcelli and Bosco, what is the relationship between globalization and place-making?
a. "Globalization has transformed - and in some ways heightened - the significance of place."
b. "Globalization makes all places meaningless."
c. "Globalization has contributed to an atmosphere of placelessness, where individual places lose their distinctive characters."
d. "There is no relationship between globalization and place-making."
a. "Globalization has transformed - and in some ways heightened - the significance of place."
When does the story of food in "the South" begin?
a. 13,000 to 15,000 years ago
b. 1607
c. 1619
d. 1861
a. 13,000 to 15,000 years ago
Which ingredient was a staple in the diets of nearly all Southeastern Indian Tribes?
a. Pork
b. Beef
c. Potatoes
d. Corn
d. Corn
Which crop became essential for the enrichment of the earliest wave of British settlers?
a. Cotton
b. Tobacco
c. Indigo
d. Rice
b. Tobacco
What happened in 1619?
a. The British arrive at Jamestown
b. The Indian Removal Act initiates the forced removal of 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi.
c. A Dutch ship brings the first forcibly removed Africans to Jamestown.
d. The British settlers face starvation in the midst of drought and ignorance.
c. A Dutch ship brings the first forcibly removed Africans to Jamestown.
After the Indian Removal Act, one group of Southeastern Indians refused to leave their lands. The U.S. govt sent in 7,000 troops and forced this group to march westward in what became known as the Trail of Tears. 4,000 people died of cold, removed during the Trail of Tears?
a. Choctaw
b. Chickasaw
c. Seminole
d. Cherokee
d. Cherokee
Which Native American tribal community is featured in the Gravy podcast, "Adaptation, Survival, Gratitude"?
a. Chickasaw
b. Lumbee
c. Choctaw
d. Cherokee
b. Lumbee
Which of the following crops was / were native to the Americans prior to the Columbian Exchange?
a. Potato
b. Corn
c. Tomato
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
What was the agricultural system that replaced slavery in the South after the civil war?
a. Industrial agriculture
b. Bracero guest worker program
c. Sharecropping
d. Convict leasing
c. Sharecropping
According to the historian C. Vann Woodward, _________ was "one of the most significant inventions of the New South."
a. The "Old South"
b. The cotton gin
c. Pancake mix
d. Jim Crow
a. The "Old South"
Which Supreme Court case legalized spatial segregation in the public spaces, including restaurants, in 1896?
a. Brown v. Board of Education
b. Plessy v. Ferguson
c. Loving v. Virginia
d. Shelley v. Kraemer
b. Plessy v. Ferguson
What is the term for adopting or using the cuisine or other cultural product of someone else, and typically profiting in some way?
a. Culinary colonialism
b. Commodification
c. Representation
d. Cultural appropriation
d. Cultural appropriation
From which reading does the following statement come? "The only thing that counts is whether it's served here and not there."
a. Green, "Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig"
b. Lee and Lee, "The Taste of Right Here"
c. Skloot, "Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town"
d. Lewis, "What is Southern"
b. Lee and Lee, "The Taste of Right Here"
According to Cindy Hahamovitch, which of the following is "the crux of the farm labor conflict"?
a. Race
b. Wages
c. Labor Supply
d. Immigration
c. Labor Supply
Who were the first "migrant farmworkers" in the region that would become the U.S. South?
a. Indentured servants from England
b. Enslaved West Africans
c. Mexican guest workers
d. Chinese farmworkers
a. Indentured servants from England
Which of the following statements about the Wagner Act is/are true?
a. It was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935
b. It gaurantees the right of private sector workers to unionize and take collective action.
c. It excluded agricultural and domestic laborers
d. All of the above are true
d. All of the above are true
The film Harvest of Shame, which aired on the day after Thanksgiving in 1960, exposed American viewers to which of the following problems?
a. The poverty of migrant farmworkers
b. Discrimination faced by African American farmers
c. The danger of industrial meatpacking plants
d. The harm of chemical fertilizers and pesticides
a. The poverty of migrant farmworkers
Which of the following federal policies promised "forty acres and a mule" to formerly enslaved Americans?
a. The first Morill Act
b. The second Morill Act
c. The Homestead Act
c. Special Order No. 15
c. Special Order No. 15
True or False: The U.S. govt fulfilled its promise to grant land ("forty acres and a mule") to formerly enslaved people.
a. True. 40,000 people settles on 400,000 acres in GA and SC, and were granted permanent title to that land.
b. Both true and false. 40,000 people settles on 400,000 acres in GA and SC, but were forced to return the land to white rice farmers less than one year later.
c. False. Formerly enslaved people were never granted access to land.
b. Both true and false. 40,000 people settles on 400,000 acres in GA and SC, but were forced to return the land to white rice farmers less than one year later.
Which of the following accurately describes African American land ownership during and immediately following Reconstruction (1865-1910)?
a. During this period, African Americans acquired over 14 million acres of farmland and controlled approximately 218,000 farms.
b. During this period, most African Americans left the South and bought land in the American West.
c. During this period, African Americans were prohibited from acquiring any land.
d. None of the above are true.
a. During this period, African Americans acquired over 14 million acres of farmland and controlled approximately 218,000 farms.
What is the name of the 1999 class-action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture, which led to a nearly one billion dollar settlement with African American farmers who has faced decades of USDA discrimination?
a. Plessy v Ferguson
b. Pigford v Glickman
c. The Homestead Act
d. Loving v Virginia
b. Pigford v Glickman
Which of the following was NOT a major factor contributing to "dispossesion" or African American land loss during the second half of the twentieth century?
a. Rural to urban migration
b. Industrialism
c. Federal, state, and local discrimination against African American farmers.
d. Immigration
d. Immigration
Who defined the term "land hunger" as "this absolutely fundamental and essential thing to any real emancipation of the slaves, which was continually pushed by all emancipated negroes in every Southern state"?
a. Booker T Washington
b. George Washington Carver
c. W.E.B. DuBois
d. Fannie Lou Hamer
c. W.E.B. DuBois
What is the name of the person whose story of dispossession is told in the Gravy podcast episode "Fighting for the Promised Land"?
a. Fannie Lou Hamer
b. Shirley Sherrod
c. Monica White
d. Ashante Reese
b. Shirley Sherrod
Which of the following is NOT a defining element of neoliberalism?
a. Governmental support for social welfare programs
b. Strong individual private property rights
c. Free markets and free trade
d. Entrepreneurial and corporate growth.
a. Governmental support for social welfare programs
What is the term for "a south which extends or operates outside regional boundaries"?
a. Global South
b. Hemispheric South
c. Transnational South
d. Migratory South
c. Transnational South
Which of the following is NOT a manifestation of contemporary globalization in the U.S. South?
a. Increasing urbanization leads to anxieties about change
b. Reliance on temporary or migratory labor in rural places
c. A condemnation of "big govt" pairs with a business-friendly atmosphere.
d. Strong Infastructure for supporting and protecting the rights of immigrant laborers.
d. Strong Infastructure for supporting and protecting the rights of immigrant laborers.
Who were the first people to work in Mississippi's pultry processing plants?
a. White men
b. White women
c. Black men and women
d. Immigrants from Latin America
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