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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. The term “color blindness” carries what meaning in the book?
2. In the book, the term “insidious” carries what meaning?
3. Referring to a person by color is an example of which of the following?
4. The term "misogynoir" carries what meaning?
5. The term “tokenism” carries what meaning?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?
2. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?
3. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes the CDC findings that Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy than white women (126)?
4. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad discusses being invited to speak at a UK festival (210-12)?
5. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad notes that going into the ninth day of the work outlined in the book “was the first day of the challenge that [she]…broke down and cried” (121)?
6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between white centering and white supremacy on the second day of the third week of work?
7. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Latham Thomas at length (212-13)?
8. What is meant in the book by “representation,” particularly as pertains to Viola Davis’s speech (123-25)?
9. What problems does Saad identify in the Mammy and magical negro stereotypes?
10. Saad makes particular mention of the hijab as an issue of white saviorism (206). Why might she have done so, based upon the materials included in the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Saad writes that “Antiracism work that does not break the heart open cannot move people toward meaningful change” (121). What might meaningful change look like? Why would it look like that? Why would it require that those doing it “break the heart open”? What does it mean to “break the heart open”? Why?
Essay Topic 2
At one point, the book uses the phrase that “you have bought it, hook, line, and sinker” (181). Between what things does the phrase make comparison? How does it do so? What problems inhere in the comparison? How do they do so?
Essay Topic 3
At several points in the book, Saad notes her personal involvement with the subjects being discussed, whether in their effects upon her and those she knows or in knowing the people whose work she references. What effects on her ethos do those notes have? How does it have those effects?
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