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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 Diangelo think about the good/bad binary?
2. What does aversive racism allow people to do, as stated in Chapter 3?
3. What is the good/bad binary?
4. What do studies show about people of color in the workplace?
5. What does Diangelo not have to deal with in the workplace?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Diangelo say about teaching people to treat everyone the same?
2. What is the racial ideology in the U.S., as defined by Diangelo?
3. What does the term color celebrate mean, as defined by Diangelo?
4. Where does Diangelo say white fragility come from?
5. What is new racism?
6. What does research show about children and race?
7. What does Diangelo say about how one's parent's can affect their views on race?
8. What does the idea that racism is not a white problem do, according to Diangelo?
9. As Diangelo writes in Chapter 5, when was it socially acceptable for white people to be openly racist?
10. Who is actually allowed to assimilate in U.S. culture, according to Diangelo?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you write about colorblindness and how it affects white people's ideas about race and racism. What is colorblindness, and in what ways does it manifest and continue to exist?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you explore why it is difficult for cross-racial discussions about race to happen without upset from white participants. Based on Diangelo's examples, why is white people's claim to victimhood when challenged about their racism harmful to progress? Use specific examples to help explain your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you explore the idea of racism as a system. In what ways is racism an institution and not something that is strictly relegated to individuals or individual situations?
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