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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. Beverly Daniel Tatum is currently the president of what educational institution?
(a) The University of Michigan.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Wesleyan University.
(d) Spelman College.
2. Erik Erikson is most famous for having coined what phrase?
(a) "Inter-racial."
(b) "Identity crisis."
(c) "Race identity."
(d) "Racial bias."
3. In Part I, A Definition of Terms, Chapter 2, The Complexity of Identity, Tatum finds in her class experiments that members of dominant groups rarely list their dominant traits while those in subordinate groups usually do what?
(a) List dominant traits.
(b) List subordinate traits.
(c) List negative traits.
(d) List positive traits.
4. 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) Otherness.
(b) Racism.
(c) Black oppression.
(d) White privelege.
5. Tatum writes in Part II, Understanding Blackness in a White Context, Chapter 3 that at very young ages, children are often confused by the color language due to their encounters with what?
(a) Crayons.
(b) Television.
(c) Other children.
(d) Dolls.
Short Answer Questions
1. Beverly Daniel Tatum received her B.A. in psychology from which institution?
2. What word means to incorporate the cultural values, mores, motives, etc., of another or of a group, as through learning, socialization, or identification?
3. 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?
4. What does Tatum define as a system of advantage based on race which restricts access to power and privilege?
5. When was Erik Erikson born?
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