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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 is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
2. What are the names of the author's parents?
3. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
4. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
5. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are climate change and racist policy relate to one another?
2. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?
3. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?
4. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?
5. Why does the author assert that definitions are important?
6. How does healthcare relate to racist policy?
7. Why does the author prefer the term "racist policy" over "institutional racism" or "systemic racism"?
8. What, according to the author, is the problem with being "not racist"?
9. What does "affirmative action" refer to?
10. How are the terms "bodily racist" and "bodily antiracist" defined?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and discuss cultural racism. How does the author define cultural racism and cultural antiracism? How does cultural racism differ from class, bodily, or space racism? How do you relate to cultural racism? What are some examples of this idea provided by the author?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss three allusions or references to literature in How to Be an Antiracist. What work is cited or referenced? Who wrote this work? What ideas did the work promote? Why does the author discuss this work in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss three pop cultural allusions or references in How to Be and Antiracist. What work, song, film, celebrity, or artist is referenced? In what context are they cited? Why does the author use this reference in the book?
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