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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 did Steele say is true of white guilt?

2. Steele articulated, whites 'discharging their duties to blacks however they can' is known as what?

3. How does Steele think affirmative action truly be a positive thing?

4. What attitude did Steele say people take against the enemies of their minds?

5. In what year did the black power movement begin to rise?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did Steele say that racial identity throughout the 60's changed? If so, how?

2. What are the middle class values that Steele mentioned in Chapter 6?

3. What opinion of blacks did Steele pen whites generally have?

4. In what way did Steele say white guilt could be an effective means of rectifying racial issues?

5. From Steele's experience, how do blacks from the poor class receive middle class blacks?

6. How did Steele mention affirmative action can be viewed as a barrier to black progress?

7. In Steele's mind, what would moving away from racial preference do to the black community with regard to power?

8. What does Steele think encouraged blacks to start the black movement?

9. According to Steele, how do objective correlatives affect blacks?

10. How does Steele believe affirmative action relates to racism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Steele spoke of a new form of campus racism. Rather than students being concerned with racial inequality, they are bothered by the anxiety of racial equality. What is the anxiety of racial equality? What causes this anxiety? What is the result of the anxiety? How does affirmative action affect this anxiety?

Essay Topic 2

What is the response that Steele notes when he spoke to white students about campus racial tension? What do their responses reveal about their internal feelings of race relations?

Essay Topic 3

Steele said that integration shock produces a new form of segregation that takes three forms. What are those three forms? Define each form. What did Steele say eradicating these forms of segregation would lead to for blacks?

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