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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. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?
2. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
3. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
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. 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)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are climate change and racist policy relate to one another?
2. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?
3. How does the author describe his third grade teacher in Chapter 4?
4. What is meant by the term "microaggression"?
5. Why does the author assert that definitions are important?
6. What does "affirmative action" refer to?
7. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?
8. What was the Black Power movement?
9. How does the author define a "segregationist"?
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
What connections between racism and capitalism does the author present in How to Be an Antiracist? When were capitalism and racism originated? How were they connected at their origins? How are they connected today?
Essay Topic 2
What does double consciousness refer to in terms of race and racism? Who coined this term? When? What examples of double consciousness does the author provide? How do you relate to double consciousness?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the biography and career of author Ibram X. Kendi. When and where was the author born? What was his childhood like? How did his childhood and upbringing influence his ideas on race and racism?
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