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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 seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?

2. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?

3. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?

4. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?

5. When was the Black Women's Alliance formed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "intersectionality"?

2. What does Brown v. Board of Education refer to?

3. What did the author learn when he took a prepratory course for the GRE?

4. When and where did capitalism emerge, according to the author?

5. What is the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song about?

6. How does the author define "colorism"?

7. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

8. Where did the author move when he began his studies at Temple University? Why?

9. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

10. How does the author define a "behavioral racist"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss three major Supreme Court cases involving race and their impacts. What was the subject of the case? What was the outcome of the case? How did the case and its outcome impact the lives of Black and White Americans?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the speech that the author describes giving in the Introduction. What were the main points in the speech? Why does the author feel shame about the speech? How was the speech received? Why does the author include this story in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss the term "microaggression." What does this term mean to you? How is it defined by the author? Why does the author oppose this term? What does he replace it with? Why?

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