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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 percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
2. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
3. Who coined the term "microaggression"?
4. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
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 does the author describe his feelings about the speech he gave, as described in the Introduction?
2. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?
3. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?
4. What does the "war on drugs" refer to?
5. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?
6. How is a "biological racist" defined by the author?
7. Who was Henry the Navigator and why does the author discuss him?
8. How is "racial inequity" defined by the author?
9. What, according to the author, is the problem with being "not racist"?
10. Why does the author prefer the term "racist policy" over "institutional racism" or "systemic racism"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the life of Prince Henry the Navigator. What was Prince Henry's role in the establishment of the slave trade? How did Prince Henry contribute to the origins of capitalism? What connection does the author have to Prince Henry?
Essay Topic 3
What do assimilationism and segregationism mean? How do these terms connect to racism? How do the terms oppose one another? What underlying truths exist in each of these terms?
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