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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 racial group (s) did Steele point out is surrounded by objective correlatives?
2. What is one reason Steele gives for why oppression hurts?
3. According to Chapter 5, what do whites want to get rid of?
4. Chapter 5 said, in terms of race relations, blacks had a choice between two ways to address the issue. What way did the chapter say blacks and whites agreed was best for blacks?
5. Steele said, blacks falsely associate certain experiences with negative emotions, which is the creation of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the dilemma Steele faced with regard to affirmative action and his children's education?
2. What did Steele say are the two factors that make up white guilt?
3. Did Steele say that racial identity throughout the 60's changed? If so, how?
4. In what way did Steele say white guilt could be an effective means of rectifying racial issues?
5. Chapter 8 says that blacks use their race in what way?
6. How did Steele say the status change of poor blacks affected the status of middle class blacks?
7. How did Steele describe enemy-memory and how did he say it affects oppression?
8. How did Steele say whites use 'escapism'?
9. What shift did Steele notice on his college campus with regard to ethnic conflict?
10. What opinion of blacks did Steele pen whites generally have?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Steele spoke of a new form of campus racism. Rather than students being concerned with racial inequality, they are bothered by the anxiety of racial equality. What is the anxiety of racial equality? What causes this anxiety? What is the result of the anxiety? How does affirmative action affect this anxiety?
Essay Topic 3
Steele mentioned the struggle for racial power is really a struggle for innocence. How do whites portray this innocence? How do blacks portray this innocence? Give specific examples mentioned in the book. How do the two racial groups believe the acquisition of innocence would benefit their own races?
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