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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. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of relational tokenism?
3. Saad notes that Black women are often either superhumanized or dehumanized. The note offers an example of which of the following?
4. Saad reports which of the following as emphasized by white supremacist stereotypes?
5. Saad notes that which of the following is a synonym for “optical allyship?”
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 benefit/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
3. What does Saad note is the purpose of the third week of the work outlined in the book?
4. 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?
5. 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)?
6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?
7. What problem/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
8. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?
9. What does Saad articulate as the primary differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?
10. What is meant in the book by “representation,” particularly as pertains to Viola Davis’s speech (123-25)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Saad notes that “white fragility looks like a white person taking the position of victim when it is in fact that white person who has committed or participated in acts of racial harm” (64). What advantage lies in taking the position of victim? What dangers associate with doing so? What effect is it likely to have? Why is it likely to have it?
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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