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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. In the book, the term "anti-Blackness" carries what meaning?

2. In what year did Viola Davis accept the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award?

3. Saad ascribes which of the following beliefs of the so-called Church of Color Blindness?

4. Saad notes which of the following as a reaction to being called out or called in?

5. In the book, the term “absolve” carries what meaning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Saad makes a point of noting the backgrounds of the sources she cites throughout her book. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when she does so?

2. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad discusses being invited to speak at a UK festival (210-12)?

3. What does Saad articulate as the primary differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?

4. What problems does Saad identify in the Mammy and magical negro stereotypes?

5. What is meant in the book by “representation,” particularly as pertains to Viola Davis’s speech (123-25)?

6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between racist stereotypes and the perpetuation of white supremacy on the fifth day of Week 2?

7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?

8. Part of the problem inherent in tokenism is that of the small sample size; a single iteration cannot be assumed to be authentically representative. What, per Saad, might be one means of addressing tokenism?

9. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes that going into the ninth day of the work outlined in the book “was the first day of the challenge that [she]…broke down and cried” (121)?

10. In moving into the second week of the work outlined in the book, Saad notes that biracial, multiracial, and white-passing persons of color are likely to experience particular discomfort in addressing the work of the week. What reason does she give for her statement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Saad notes that pain, shame, indignation, and anger are likely to emerge in those who do the work outlined in the book while they do that work. She also asserts that such feelings should not be set aside or ignored, but embraced and worked through. Is she right or wrong? If she is right, what makes her right? How does it do so? If she is wrong, what makes her wrong? How does it do so? In either case, what suppositions underlie the idea, and what does it show that they do so?

Essay Topic 2

Saad cites “Being overfamiliar with Black women you do not know” as an iteration of misogynoir (128). What does it mean to be overfamiliar? How so? Why is overfamiliarity problematic?

Essay Topic 3

Saad notes that leadership carries additional responsibility (245-46). Others have written and spoken to the same. Look at one leader whom you follow. How does that leader take on additional responsibility? How should that leader do so to a greater extent? Why?

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