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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. Saad ascribes which of the following beliefs of the so-called Church of Color Blindness?
2. Saad cites Amélie Lamont as including which of the following in allyship (216-17)?
3. Which of the following does Saad exclude from reasons that white-privileged people do not get to determine whether they are performing allyship?
4. In the book, the term "anti-Blackness" carries what meaning?
5. The term “exoticizing” refers to which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why, per Saad, is positive stereotyping harmful?
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 note is the purpose of the third week of the work outlined in the book?
4. Saad points out that personal mental health and behavioral issues are not necessarily justifications for not doing antiracist work. What reason/s does she give for the assertion?
5. 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?
6. 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)?
7. Saad notes that mistakes are inevitable in effecting change. Why might it be a good thing that they are so?
8. What problems does Saad identify in the Mammy and magical negro stereotypes?
9. 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?
10. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the foreword, DiAngelo notes that making a list of areas of ignorance offers a guide for moving forward. She then gives such a list as pertains to racism. What other area of social concern might benefit from such a treatment? What might such a list for that area look like? How would that list work to address the area of social concern?
Essay Topic 2
At one point, the book uses the phrase that “you have bought it, hook, line, and sinker” (181). Between what things does the phrase make comparison? How does it do so? What problems inhere in the comparison? How do they do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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