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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 “blackface” carries what meaning?
2. The term “marginalized” carries what meaning?
3. The term “adultification” carries what meaning in the book?
4. The phrase “the aggressive adversary, the sassy sidekick, or the deferent devotee to white women” (126) offers an example of which of the following?
5. Saad notes that Black women are often either superhumanized or dehumanized. The note offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad explains the relationship between racist stereotypes and the perpetuation of white supremacy on the fifth day of Week 2?
2. 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?
3. Part of the problem inherent in tokenism is that of the small sample size; a single iteration cannot be assumed to be authentically representative. What, per Saad, might be one means of addressing tokenism?
4. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Asam Ahmad in discussing being called in / called out (219-20)?
5. Saad notes that mistakes are inevitable in effecting change. Why might it be a good thing that they are so?
6. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Teju Cole at length (203-04)?
7. What problem/s does Saad identify in grouping people together as BIPOC?
8. What does Saad articulate as the primary differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation?
9. Why, per Saad, is tokenism problematic?
10. What rhetorical appeal/s is / are made when Saad references Toni Morrison at length (183-85)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Saad suggests that relationships among white-privileged persons often, if not always, include reinforcement of white supremacy. What would a relationship among white-privileged persons look like absent the reinforcement of white supremacy? Why would it look that way? How do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Saad remarks at length on the “adultification” of Black youth. What does it mean to be an adult? How does this manifest in a given cultural group? How is adultification harmful to members of that group? Why would adultificiation be applied to children of that group?
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