Critical Race Theory
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Critical Race Theory is an interdisciplinary course that examines how race and racism are ingrained in the fabric of society, law, politics, and culture. The course explores the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of racial inequality, drawing on scholarship from law, sociology, education, and political science. Key topics include the social construction of race, intersectionality, structural racism, and the critique of colorblindness. Students will engage with foundational texts and case studies to analyze how legal systems and institutional practices perpetuate racial hierarchies and to consider strategies for advancing social justice and equity.
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Race in America 1st Edition by Matthew Desmond
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Chapter 1: Race in the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) The current _______________ in the United States delineates five major groups.
A)homogenizing heading
B)ethnic variation
C)cultural schema
D)racial taxonomy
Answer: D
Q2) As it relates to racial domination,symbolic power is best described as:
A)the power to define and classify groups as normal or aberrant
B)the power to legally withhold basic rights from certain groups
C)the power to privilege whites over others in terms of access to employment and the accumulation of wealth
D)the power to deny people of color membership in desirable associations
Answer: A
Q3) Race is a ___________________category that is misrecognized as a _____________ category.
A)symbolic;cultural
B)biological;genetic
C)cultural;biological
D)symbolic;natural
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Invention of Race
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Q1) From 1600 to 1900,approximately what percentage of America's indigenous peoples died as a direct result of European colonization?
A)25 percent
B)55 percent
C)75 percent
D)90 percent
Answer: D
Q2) Why did Harriet Jacobs,author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,say that slavery "is terrible for men;but it is far more terrible for women"?
A)Women were forced to work longer hours in the field than men.
B)Male slaves were more likely to escape from their masters than female slaves were.
C)Women were forced to work in plantation houses alongside their owners.
D)Since slave children increased a master's wealth,slave women were often the victims of rape.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Politics
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Q1) Most white Americans consistently have accepted the principle of racial inclusion while rejecting many of the policy measures designed to carry it out.What is this phenomenon called?
A)gerrymandering
B)the principle-implementation gap
C)the threat hypothesis
D)the tokenistic fallacy
Answer: B
Q2) What was the famous march in which activists walked along a stretch of land in which no black people were registered to vote?
A)Atlanta-to-New Orleans March
B)St.Louis-to-Kansas City March
C)Tallahassee-to-Miami March
D)Selma-to-Montgomery March
Answer: D
Q3) Name and describe one characteristic shared by black and Native American civil rights organizers.
Answer: Answers will vary and may include the following: both movements were led by youth,especially college students.
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Chapter 4: Economics
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Q1) What does the concept "homosocial reproduction" mean?
A)People of color are less likely to condone homosexual relations than whites.
B)People in homosexual relationships tend to have higher salaries.
C)Authorities tend to fill positions of power with people like themselves.
D)People in lower-level positions tend to recruit people like themselves for coworkers.
Q2) Banks that are more likely to lend money to whites than to nonwhites and banks that charge higher mortgage rates to nonwhites are examples of:
A)present-day institutional racism
B)why there is persistent income inequality between whites and nonwhites
C)institutional racism that,while no longer practiced,has created wealth inequalities
D)the effects of past and present-day wage inequalities
Q3) Little Italy in New York City,where a number of Italian Americans have lived and owned businesses for generations,is an example of what?
A)an immigrant consortium
B)an ethnic enclave
C)a cosmopolitan canopy
D)an assimilation district
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Chapter 5: Housing
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Q1) Which of the following were findings of the Detroit Area Survey?
A)The majority of black respondents said their ideal neighborhood was 50 percent black and 50 percent white,while 84 percent of white respondents said they would not enter such a neighborhood.
B)The majority of black respondents said their ideal neighborhood was 75 percent black and 25 percent white,and white respondents preferred a neighborhood that was 50 percent white and 50 percent black.
C)The majority of white respondents said their ideal neighborhood was one with 50 percent black and 50 percent white residents,and a majority of black respondents said they would not feel comfortable entering such a neighborhood.
D)The majority of black respondents would move away from a neighborhood that was 50 percent white and 50 percent black,while whites would prefer to move to this type of neighborhood.
Q2) Who benefits from environmental racism?
A)Native Americans living on reservations
B)small business owners located in rural areas
C)those that have enough wealth to live away from polluting sites
D)those that live in sparsely populated counties
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Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment
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Q1) Why might immigrant women be more prone to become the repeated victims of intimate partner violence than native-born American women?
A)Even though the reality of the presence of immigrants in American society may be a reduction in overall crime,our society's institutions and media promote the acceptance of violence between immigrant couples.
B)A woman's risk of partner abuse increases the more isolated she is from the wider society,and immigrant women are perhaps the most isolated in America;many abuse programs and shelters are located in nonimmigrant neighborhoods.
C)Immigrant women are less likely to be educated in American institutions,and therefore their reports of violence and abuse happen within the networks of their communities in their countries of origin.
D)The media portrays solutions to the "problems of immigrants" as deportation,so society does not punish or arrest men in immigrant communities if they act violently toward women.
Q2) What are the two reasons why most of the prison boom cannot be explained by rising crime rates?
Q3) In what way did lynch mobs uphold white patriarchy?
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Chapter 7: Education
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Q1) Consider the figure below,"Effects of Stereotype Threat." What should we understand from this graph?
A)When students are made to feel that their performance must counter stereotypes,they are less likely to perform to the best of their ability.
B)When students are made to feel that their performance will be judged differently by racist teachers,they are less likely to do well.
C)When students are made to feel that their performance must counter stereotypes,they are more likely to perform to the best of their ability.
D)Minority students are more likely to do well on material that is culturally relevant to them.
Q2) What usually happens to the very small number of qualified white and Asian applicants who are denied admission to a particular university due to affirmative action policies?
A)They are denied admission to most institutions to which they apply.
B)They are admitted to other institutions of equal stature.
C)They are unlikely to attend college.
D)They are more at risk for drug abuse and incarceration.
Q3) Explain the concept of a "model minority."
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Chapter 8: Aesthetics
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Q1) Appropriating another group's culture but refusing to use the art to further racial domination is an example of what?
A)racist cultural appropriation
B)strategic amnesia
C)highbrow culture
D)antiracist cultural appropriation
Q2) As a style of music,the blues evolved from spirituals in response to what?
A)the popularity of minstrelsy
B)the racial domination of African Americans by whites
C)the nonracist aesthetic
D)the events of the Civil Rights Movement
Q3) The turning away of hip-hop from its political roots can be traced back to what?
A)the white domination of artistic production
B)the successes of the Civil Rights Movement
C)the popularity of the racist aesthetic
D)The backlash against violence in media
Q4) In addition to misrepresenting people of color,what are three ways that the racist aesthetic misrepresents racial domination? Give one example of each type of misrepresentation.
Q5) How is The Brady Bunch an example of the white aesthetic in television?
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Chapter 9: Associations
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Q1) Online,an Arab American man can pass as a white woman,just as a white woman can pass as a Native American teenager.These virtual associations encourage a form of:
A)virtual racism
B)experimental sexism
C)online reality
D)racial tourism
Q2) What is "boundary work"?
A)the collection of practices by which families separate and integrate themselves into the communities around them
B)the formal associations,such as churches or social clubs,that defy racial divisions in society
C)the welcoming symbolic gestures in immigrant communities,for Spanish-speakers in particular
D)the collection of practices by which people maintain or challenge racial relations of exclusivity or inclusivity
Q3) Provide two examples of how religious organizations promote and preserve racial and ethnic identities.
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Chapter 10: Intimate Life
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Q1) When you hear a black man today saying that some black women are "too bossy," he may be unconsciously referring to:
A)the stereotype of the threat of black women's overt sexuality
B)the stereotype of the "black matriarch"
C)the stereotype of black women as "natural" leaders
D)the stereotype of the "black Jezebel"
Q2) Explain how gays and lesbians of color may be susceptible to suffering from a "double rejection."
Q3) The "ghetto pass" in Ice Cube's song "True to the Game" is:
A)a way of signaling that one is both black and rich
B)a way of acting out against others that elevates someone to an "untouchable" status
C)an education that gives someone skills to leave the ghetto and attain a prosperous life
D)an implied right to authentic blackness that can be taken away if one acts outside of race norms
Q4) Why do Hispanic men have a relative advantage when it comes to the labor market and marriage as compared to black men?
Q5) What is "racial authenticity," and why is it important?
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Chapter 11: Toward Racial Democracy
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Q1) A proponent of color-blindness would be most likely to offer which of the following critiques of cosmopolitanism?
A)By highlighting the importance of racial and ethnic identities,cosmopolitanism divides rather than unites Americans.
B)Cosmopolitanism does not solve the problems of race-based policies any more effectively than color-blindness does.
C)Cosmopolitanism does not believe all cultures have equal worth.
D)Cosmopolitanism does not promote systemic change.
Q2) The dismantling of many Jim Crow Era segregation policies is an example of what type of change?
A)a change to cultural norms rather than laws
B)a change to people's individual mindsets
C)a change of micro-aggressions and micro-interactions
D)a legal and institutional change
Q3) For proponents of the color-blind framework,what is the role of racial identity in society?
Q4) Explain the steps of Park's race relations cycle.
Q5) Explain why the melting pot is the common symbol of American assimilation.
Q6) What is the basic problem with statements such as "Blacks are very athletic."?
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