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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. What was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?

2. What character takes on the name "Tarzan" in Tarzan of the Apes?

3. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?

4. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?

5. Where was Stokely Carmicheal born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

2. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

3. What significance does the author place on Tarzan of the Apes?

4. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

5. What response did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 garner?

6. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

7. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?

8. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

9. Why did the concept of segregation gain momentum at the turn of the twentieth century?

10. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the colonization movement during and following the American Civil War. Who led the thought on re-colonizing Blacks back to Africa? How widespread was support of this idea? How did Blacks themselves feel about colonization?

Essay Topic 2

Describe climate theory in regards to race. When did this theory emerge? Where and from whom did it emerge? How was climate theory used to justify racism?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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