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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. Where did Nathaniel Bacon live as a property owner?
2. When did Ronald Reagan officially announce the War on Drugs?
3. By the end of 2007, how many Americans were behind bars, on probation, or on parole, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
4. What term is used in the book to describe "a traffic stop motivated not by any desire to enforce traffic laws, but instead motivated by a desire to hunt for drugs in the absence of any evidence of illegal drug activity"?
5. When did Congress, at the behest of Ronald Reagan, revise the program that provides federal aid to law enforcement, renaming it the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author define "caste"? What is meant by "racial caste"?
2. What is Federalism and what role has it played in racial oppression, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
3. What led to the ermergence of slavery as the primary means for labor in the South?
4. How has the U.S. penal population changed from 1980 to today?
5. What were the impacts and repercussions of Bacon's Rebellion?
6. What does the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declare?
7. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?
8. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
9. What does a "consent search" refer to?
10. What was Operation Pipeline and what impacts did it have?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss "pretext stops" and "stop and frisk" policies as they relate to the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. How have these policies been employed? What rulings have addressed their constitutionality? What purpose do these policies serve?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's metaphor of a birdcage in The New Jim Crow. To what is a birdcage compared? What comprises the bars of the cage? What does the author remark about the door of the cage?
Essay Topic 3
What are Jim Crow laws? When were these laws established? Where were they established? What were the repercussions of the Jim Crow laws?
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