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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. Where does Diangelo belong, as stated in Chapter 4?

2. What does research in implicit bias show about perceptions of crime?

3. What does "white flight" refer to?

4. Who does Diangelo say can be racist?

5. As stated in Chapter 4, what about Diangelo's person makes it so that she is automatically perceived as qualified and competent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the term color celebrate mean, as defined by Diangelo?

2. What is discrimination?

3. What does Diangelo say about teaching people to treat everyone the same?

4. According to Diangelo, how do white people tend to react to the suggestion that being white has meaning?

5. What is aversive racism?

6. What is white flight?

7. Who is actually allowed to assimilate in U.S. culture, according to Diangelo?

8. What is the concept of the melting pot?

9. What has the good/bad binary done to white people, according to Diangelo?

10. What does research show about children and race?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you write about the various ways that white people allow racism to continue to manifest and perpetuate itself in society. Choose three examples mentioned in the text and explain why they do little to challenge racism as it exists in our world today.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you discuss the concept of affirmative action. What is affirmative action, and who does it influence, and in what ways?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you write about colorblindness and how it affects white people's ideas about race and racism. What is colorblindness, and in what ways does it manifest and continue to exist?

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