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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. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
2. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?
3. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
4. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
5. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is "racial inequity" defined by the author?
2. How are denial and racism connected, according to the author in the Introduction?
3. Why does the author no longer use the term "microaggression" anymore?
4. What does "eugenics" refer to?
5. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?
6. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?
7. What is an "assimilationist"?
8. How is "ethnic racism" defined by the author?
9. What are "polygenesis" and "monogenesis"?
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
How does the author use personal, autobiographical narrative in How to Be an Antiracist? What effects does this form of narrative have? In what ways do the author's personal narratives help to illustrate his thesis points in the book?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the topic of suasion. What does this term mean? How is it applied in a racial context? What does "respectability politics" mean and how is it related to suasion?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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