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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. It's Steele's belief that in what types of areas do blacks many times withhold effort?
2. What type of anxiety does Steele say is especially a problem for blacks?
3. According to Steele, what race is considered the most 'despised' race?
4. What is the race / ethnicity of Steele's wife?
5. According to Chapter 2, many blacks are afraid to do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the three ways that Steele said integration shock manifests as segregation?
2. What effect did Steele say integration shock has on blacks' attitude about racism as a whole? How did he say it affects their individual attitudes?
3. Did Steele say racial discrimination is always used as a fair claim by blacks? Why or why not?
4. Steele shared his thought that blacks use themes of re-composition to create black identity. What did he say are these themes?
5. According to Steele, the processes that drives one's mind are standard across racial / ethnic lines. Why is this an important observation?
6. What did Steele mean when he said the discussion of race relations has become scripted?
7. What caused Steele to experience discrimination in a segregated school?
8. What tool do blacks use to create a tolerable, false sense of reality, in Steele's estimation?
9. In Chapter 3, how did Steele say blacks deal with racial insecurities?
10. Steele articulated, when blacks feel powerless in white society, they deal with it in one of two ways, by challenging or bargaining. Describe what he means by this.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the 'double-bind' , according to Steele, that middle class blacks are typically a part of? How does it affect their 'blackness'?
Essay Topic 2
Rather than doing away with insecurity, Steele noted many blacks respond to the anti-self mindset with denial. What do they deny? What is an example of something they would say or do to exhibit this denial?
Essay Topic 3
What is the black power movement? What type of people did Steele say were generally a part of the movement? Did it affect blacks in a positive and / or negative way? How did it affect whites? What about society as a whole? Is the movement still in effect today? If so, in what ways. If not, why not?
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