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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 is the second factor the author describes for why process-oriented affirmative action is often ineffective in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

2. When was Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation published?

3. What is a term sometimes used in the United States to include both Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans?

4. According to the author, attempts to relate one's subculture to a broader culture can produce four reactions: assimilation, withdrawal, biculturalism and what?

5. Tatum writes in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity that many Whites' only sense of Whiteness is that it is "normal," but true, positive white identity should be based in what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe differences between males and females in biracial identity formation in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

2. 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?

3. What misconception does the author attempt to clear away in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

4. 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?

5. At what age is biracial identity concreted, according to the author in Part IV, Beyond Black and White, Chapter 9, Identity Development in Multiracial Families?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. What is the effect of white resistance to racism, according to the author in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 6, The Development of White Identity?

9. How does the author introduce the concept of affirmative action in Part III, Understanding Whiteness in a White Context, Chapter 7, White Identity and Affirmative Action?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the experience of Blacks and Whites in the workplace. What resistance does the author describe Whites having against affirmative action? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Erik Erikson and his model for identity development. What stages are delineated in Erikson's model?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Tatum's examples of racial depictions from the Bible and in children's films. How do these early examples shape racial identity in children?

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