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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 maintains our social comfort and helps us regain it when those around us do not act in familiar and acceptable ways, as stated in Chapter 7?
2. What does Diangelo state in Chapter 8 that white fragility function as a form of?
3. What did Eva do after her first workshop?
4. What did a man of color once tell Diangelo when she asked what it would be like if white people listened and acted according to feedback from people of color?
5. What did one unhappy program participant email Diangelo that she would rather talk about than race?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is affirmative action, and who does it affect?
2. What is anti-blackness rooted in?
3. What kinds of things are helpful to white people interested in challenging their internalized racism, according to Diangelo?
4. What does it mean to be "less white"?
5. What is habitus?
6. What kind of language does Diangelo say whites can use to victimize themselves in moments in which they are challenged?
7. Why, according to Diangelo, do so many white people feel the need to "build trust" before they talk to others about race?
8. What are some common emotional reactions white people have when their assumptions are challenged, according to Diangelo?
9. What are some common claims white people use to assuage their complicity, according to Diangelo?
10. What does Diangelo write is problematic about white people using the language of violence to describe their own white fragility?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you write about the significance of the book, and the potential of its impact on readers. Why is this book so important? Who should be reading it, and why?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you analyze the good/bad binary that Diangelo mentions in the text. What is the good/bad binary, and in what ways is it harmful (to whites, to people of color, and to collective efforts to challenge systematic racism)?
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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