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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 term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
2. 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)?
3. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
5. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Henry the Navigator and why does the author discuss him?
2. What led the author to "protest" in third grade?
3. What was the Human Genome Project?
4. What does "affirmative action" refer to?
5. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?
6. Why does the author no longer use the term "microaggression" anymore?
7. How are the terms "bodily racist" and "bodily antiracist" defined?
8. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?
9. What are "polygenesis" and "monogenesis"?
10. How are denial and racism connected, according to the author in the Introduction?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and discuss bodily racism and bodily antiracism. How are these terms defined by the author? How does bodily racism differ from cultural, class, or space racism? How do you relate to bodily racism?
Essay Topic 2
How does the author define the term "antiracist"? How is this different from being "not a racist"? How does the author define "racism"? Why are these definitions important?
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's stance on standardized testing in public education? When was standardized testing introduced? Who introduced it? How does standardized testing relate to race and racism?
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