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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. Which of the following does Saad identify as an example of brand tokenism?
2. In the book, the term “absolve” carries what meaning?
3. The term “white centering” carries what meaning?
4. The term “white-passing” carries what meaning?
5. Saad notes that Black women are often either superhumanized or dehumanized. The note offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?
3. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?
4. What benefit/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
5. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?
6. What problem/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad discusses being invited to speak at a UK festival (210-12)?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. In moving into the second week of the work outlined in the book, Saad notes that those doing the work should not voice their discomfort to BIPOC if they are not BIPOC. What reason does she give for her statement?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider questions of demographic and other groups. For a given area—restricted to the present and local—what are the dominant demographic and other groups? What assumptions does the dominant population have about itself? How are those assumptions helpful? How are they harmful? On the whole, are they beneficial?
Essay Topic 2
On the last day of the work outlined in the book, Saad asks after readerly commitments to antiracist work. Following Saad, what is the single most important commitment you can make to carrying out the work? Why is it the most important? What does it look like to follow through with it? Why does it look that way?
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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