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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3, The Early Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum argues that while economic productivity may be hurt by racism, the real cost to whites is what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Physical.
(c) Psychological.
(d) Emotional.

2. What is a way of conceptualizing racial inequalities that focuses as much on the advantages that white people accrue from society as on the disadvantages that people of color experience?
(a) Black oppression.
(b) Racism.
(c) Otherness.
(d) White privelege.

3. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 1, Defining Racism, Tatum writes that in one course Tatum taught, a child denied that who could be black because she was "beautiful"?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

4. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?
(a) Affirm.
(b) Internalize.
(c) Nativism.
(d) Alienation.

5. When was Erik Erikson born?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution take place?

2. What is the name of Tatum's son who commented when he was young that a white mother and her black child "didn't match" in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3?

3. What word means understood without being openly expressed?

4. What refers to that which is placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank?

5. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?

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