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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 does Diangelo say happens when a white woman cries over racism?

2. What does Diangelo say Mr. Roberts and his colleague were unable to do?

3. What specific words do whites use to describe their feelings in the face of being challenged on their racism, as stated in Chapter 8?

4. What does Diangelo ask others do for her?

5. According to Diangelo, what is one kind of behavior white people can exhibit when confronted about racism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Diangelo write is problematic about white people using the language of violence to describe their own white fragility?

2. What is anti-blackness rooted in?

3. What are the three key aspects to Bourdieu’s theory that are relevant to white fragility?

4. What do white racial assumptions do for white people and society as a whole?

5. How does white fragility function as a form of bullying, as explained by Diangelo?

6. What does habitus do for white people specifically, accordign to Diangelo?

7. According to Diangelo, how does white people's avoidance of discomfort in race talk affect their potential for growth?

8. What does habitus depend upon?

9. What are some functions of white fragility?

10. White fragility can be understood as a response to what, according to Diangelo?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

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)?

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