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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 was the name for Indian soldiers who served and fought for Britain during WWI?
2. What work by Lee Mun Wah does Eddo-Lodge mention in the Preface as touching to her?
3. A 2009 report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found that what percentage of all Black men living in Britain were on the National DNA Database?
4. What important abolitionist group was established in the year 1787 in Britain?
5. Which law drastically restricted immigration rights for Britain's Commonwealth citizens in 1962?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, what devastating question did Eddo-Lodge ask her mother when she was four years old about race?
2. Why is structural racism often so difficult to hold to account, according to Eddo-Lodge?
3. Why does Eddo-Lodge view this book as a paradox of sorts?
4. What is racism often confused with, and what is the difference between the two, according to Eddo-Lodge?
5. What does Eddo-Lodge think about the issue of responsibility and white privilege?
6. Why was the SS Empire Windrush significant in the history of racism in Britain?
7. What reason did the Crown Prosecution Service give to account for not prosecuting any suspects in the Stephen Lawrence case?
8. How does Eddo-Lodge use the phrase "people of color" in her book?
9. Why does Eddo-Lodge write in the Preface that she has to be very careful about entering into conversation about race with defiant white people?
10. What does Eddo-Lodge argue the U.S. struggle against racism has done to the British struggle against racism?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they attempt to address," Eddo-Lodge writes (183). Write an essay explaining what this statement means in the larger context of the book, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Why did John Fernandes decide to stop teaching at Police College in the 1980s? Write an essay explaining your answers, and explain what Fernandes's experiences revealed about police attitudes towards racial minorities in the U.K. at the time.
Essay Topic 3
Eddo-Lodge writes that "Whiteness is a political position" (170). Write an essay explaining your interpretation of this statement.
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