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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?
(a) Pseudo-independence.
(b) Racism.
(c) Contact.
(d) Disintigration.

2. What was a case in which the US Supreme Court affirmed that Alabama's anti-miscegenation statute was constitutional?
(a) Loving v. Virginia.
(b) Pace v. Alabama.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Roberts v. Colorado.

3. Tatum distinguishes between two conceptions of affirmative action, process-oriented and what in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?
(a) Autonomy.
(b) Goal-oriented.
(c) Marginalization.
(d) Disintigration.

4. What is a system in which descent is traced through the mother and maternal ancestors?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Matrilineality.
(c) Familism.
(d) Autonomy.

5. In what year did the Mexican-American War begin?
(a) 1811.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1846.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions?

2. Beverly Daniel Tatum comes down clearly in favor of what form of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

3. What is the third of five stages that whites pass through in dealing with race, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

4. What refers to movement of people from one nation-state to another, where they are not citizens?

5. What was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tatum claim affirmative action is and is not in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

2. How is biracial development approached by the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

3. How does Tatum describe the variations and similarities within the Latino community in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development?

4. What are the costs of a lack of a racial dialogue, according to the author in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?

5. When and how does Tatum describe the need for racial consciousness in biracial children in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

6. How does the author describe the similarities and variations within the Native American community in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development?

7. What conceptions of affirmative action does Tatum distinguish between in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

8. What reactions can result from attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture, according to the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development?

9. What do productive racial dialogues promote, according to the author in Part V, Breaking the Silence, Chapter 10, Embracing a Cross-Racial Dialogue?

10. In Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 8, Critical Issues in Latino, American Indian, and Asian Pacific American Identity Development, Tatum addresses what element as drawing together minorities?

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