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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Steele say must be shared between blacks and whites?
2. In Steele's mind, what undermines the struggles for freedom?
3. In what state does Steele work?
4. What type of self-proclaimed identity did Steele say he developed as a result of feeling of inferior?
5. What is the race / ethnicity of Steele's wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect did Steele say integration shock has on blacks' attitude about racism as a whole? How did he say it affects their individual attitudes?
2. Did Steele say racial discrimination is always used as a fair claim by blacks? Why or why not?
3. How did Steele say race-holding negatively affects the civil rights freedoms won decades ago? What must blacks do to avoid this?
4. In line with Steele's experience, how are individualistic blacks received by those who have conformed to the 'black identity'?
5. What caused Steele to experience discrimination in a segregated school?
6. According to Steele, how is the struggle for racial power more of a struggle for innocence for blacks?
7. In Chapter 3, how did Steele say blacks deal with racial insecurities?
8. Steele shared his thought that blacks use themes of re-composition to create black identity. What did he say are these themes?
9. In order to explain issues specific to race, Steele said it was necessary for him to understand human universals. What was he talking about?
10. How does Steele define the self-inflicted mindset of anti-self?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Steele define 'objective correlative'? What racial group did he say is surrounded by 'objective correlatives? What do these correlatives produce? What example did Steele give of 'objective correlatives'? How did this example affect civil rights leadership?
Essay Topic 2
What is the black power movement? What type of people did Steele say were generally a part of the movement? Did it affect blacks in a positive and / or negative way? How did it affect whites? What about society as a whole? Is the movement still in effect today? If so, in what ways. If not, why not?
Essay Topic 3
How did Steele define racial vulnerability? How does it affect the politics, clothing style and dance of blacks? Do blacks generally acknowledge this vulnerability? If so, how? Does racial vulnerability affect the way blacks respond to their problems?
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