2. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Harry Blackmun.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Heather Mac Donald.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Chester Pierce.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?
(a) Common core standards.
(b) Segregated schools.
(c) Integrated schools.
(d) Standardized tests.

5. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?

2. In 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. When was The Origin of Species published?

4. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?

5. Who wrote Roots?

(see the answer key)

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