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When Janus exercise author Evelyn Alsultany writes about Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves, she is describing her lived experience of _______________.

According to Dr. James, __________was a former website that had offered guidelines or recommendations on how to communicate more effectively with people of diverse backgrounds in the professional workplace (cf. “What Not to Say”). She surmised this website was a casuality of the most recent rounds of culture wars that attack “DEI” in schools and the workplace.  

According to former DiversityInc”s prescriptive advice,  what is something you SHOULD do when communicating with a LGBTQ colleague or  co-worker in the workplace?

Recent controversies over the use of race-related language and images include the rebranding U.S. commerical products that used visual representations of enslaved Africans and Black servants on packaging; the removal of Confederate flags and statues from public spaces; and  _______________.

____________ was discussed in your readings as program of research in the 1920s developed by U.S. “race scientist” to improve the human race by breeding the what they believed to be the superior Whites races (Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon).  The course film, Race, Power of an Illusion futher argued that during World War II, the Nazi’s used this U.S. research to justify their attempts to exterminate the Jews, disabled persons, and other minority groups.

Rothenberg author Tommy Avicolli, a gay man, was critical of how his school used interpetations of  ___________ to criticize homosexuality. In class, we noted today some of these long held, “traditional” interpretations are contested. 

Even though in the academy and sometimes in the media,  we commonly use the new term “Latinx,”  survey research in the early 2020’s has shown most people of Hispanic descent do not use and dislike the term.   And though the term “Oriental” is still in use, its use now is  also often criticized.  In this course, both Latinx and Oriental are examples of what kind of language?

According Janus exercise author Thrupkaew (Rothenberg), __________ is  a danger of stereotyping all Asian-Americans as the  “Model Minorities” ethnic group in the United States.

In addition to protecting the right to free speech, ________ to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to select the religion (or non-religion) of your choice;  the freedom of the press: the rights of citizens to peaceably assemble: and the rights of citizens to petition the government for redress.  All these rights relate to how U.S. citizens can engage in public communication.  

_________ is a course conceptual framework used to illustrate that because of communication technologies such as video cameras on cell phones and opportunities to upload those videos and other texts in social media, students today cannot assume controversial things they speak, enact, write, record, email, text, or post allegedly in private can ever again be done with a guarantee of complete privacy.