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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 storytelling tokenism?

2. The term “tokenizing” refers to which of the following?

3. The term “exoticizing” refers to which of the following?

4. Saad cites Amélie Lamont as including which of the following in allyship (216-17)?

5. The term “color blindness” carries what meaning in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. Why, per Saad, is positive stereotyping harmful?

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 notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?

7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?

8. What benefit/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?

9. 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?

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

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

Near the end of the 28-day work outlined in the book, Saad asks “what it means to be ‘good’ as a person who holds white privilege” (258). What does it mean? How do you know?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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