View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Philomena Essed.

2. When was Dark Ghetto published?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1965.

3. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Philomena Essed.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

4. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

5. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Philomena Essed.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?

2. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?

3. When was the movie Shaft released?

4. When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?

5. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

2. What are some examples of the impacts of colorism described by the author?

3. How are racism and capitalism related?

4. Where did the author move when he began his studies at Temple University? Why?

5. What does "gender racism" refer to?

6. Why did the student-leaders at FAMU direct a silent march in November of 2000?

7. What does Brown v. Board of Education refer to?

8. What is a "class racist"?

9. How does the author define "queer racism" and "queer antiracism"?

10. How does Ibram X. Kendi define "powerless defense"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 679 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample