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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 inflates the individual seeking power over another, according to Steele?
2. How did Steele say blacks address doubt?
3. According to Steele, what race is considered the most 'despised' race?
4. What type of anxiety does Steele say is especially a problem for blacks?
5. What is Steele's son's name?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why did Steele say he was accused of being inauthentic? How do many blacks say Steele views the priority of the black race? Have other blacks followed in Steele's footsteps? If so, how and why?
3. What is Steele's opinion of the black identity?
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. Steele said the 60's were turbulent. What are two of the race related movements that took place in that decade?
7. How did Steele mention individualism is powerful? What did he say it requires people to do? What could be the drawbacks of it?
8. In line with Steele's experience, how are individualistic blacks received by those who have conformed to the 'black identity'?
9. In Chapter 1, Steele said the only way to do away with racial problems is for all to move from a racial consciousness to a moral consciousness. What does that mean?
10. How does Steele define the self-inflicted mindset of anti-self?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As a youth, what was Steele's experience with the black power movement? How did it affect the way he thinks today? What are some of the positives and negatives that Steele mentioned about the movement? How did Steele say individualism relates to the collective attitude of the movement?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What are the two attitudes that Steele said people generally take when it comes to affirmative action? Give at least two advantages / disadvantages from each school of thought.
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