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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. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?

2. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?

3. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

4. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

5. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were slave-owners reluctant to baptize their slaves in the 1600s?

2. What impact did mistrel shows have on racist perceptions?

3. What is curse theory?

4. When did the Haitian Revolution take place and what was the outcome of the revolution?

5. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?

6. Why is Leo Africanus notable historically?

7. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

8. What is climate theory?

9. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

10. What is Carl Linnaeus's significance in racial history?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of the War on Drugs on racism in America. Statistically, what disparities can be seen between Blacks and Whites within the prison system? What justifications are used to explain these disparities? How did the War on Drugs serve to develop an even greater racist culture in the U.S.?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the viewpoints of Voltaire and Buffon. What line of thought does each of these thinkers express? Why? How did their perceptions of Blacks differ generally?

Essay Topic 3

What were the impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What backlash came with the act? How did the act influence the Black vote? What powers were given to enforce the act?

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