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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 NOT a trait of an individual fitting the description of a "New Negro" (185)?

2. Alex Manly was the publisher and editor of the black newspaper the Daily Record, which operated in what state?

3. What type of art was featured in the World's Fair exhibit depicting African Americans?

4. Gates asserts that African American women were grouped by whites into how many categories within nineteenth century popular culture?

5. In what year was the essay entitled "The Conservation of Races" published?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the concept of xenophobic masking.

2. Discuss the significance of Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.

3. How does Barbara Johnson define a stereotype and why does Gates consider her definition useful?

4. For what reason does Gates refer to Homi K. Bhabha's discussion of stereotypes?

5. What was the intended goal of the group who launched the New Negro movement?

6. For what reasons does Gates consider a particular Mississippi Supreme Court Justice's words about African Americans in 1898 so significant?

7. Which aspect of W.E.B. Du Bois's ideas about race does Gates find problematic?

8. Explain the concept of the Talented Tenth advocated by W.E.B. Du Bois.

9. What was the sole reason for whites' wide distribution of racist images of African Americans in the late-nineteenth century?

10. Which gains in the area of racial equality made during Reconstruction had been lost by the arrival of the twentieth century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the nature and value of continually examining one’s own thought patterns and behaviors for signs of prejudice and awareness of privilege?

Essay Topic 2

What ultimate message is Gates, Jr. sending about the mythical qualities of the United States?

Essay Topic 3

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

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