Deck 18: Race in World Politics

Question 1

Racism and castism are synonymous.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

In the early years of the formation of the field of International Relations, race was discussed as a mainstream and not marginal issue.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

'Racialization'…

A) Has been increasingly used to address the socially constructed nature of race, which, nevertheless, has real effects.
B) Owes much to the writings of Martinquan psychiatrist Frantz Fanon in the 1950s and 1960s, which were imported into sociological debates in the 1970s.
C) Argues that social conventions impute racial characteristics to persons, objects, processes, and issues such that, over time, their very meaning and significance change to become inseparable from the racial trait they have been accorded.
D) All of the options given are correct.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The biological calculus of race came out of the theological debate over indigenous peoples.

Question 5

The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, penned in 1789, declared 'slavery forever abolished'.

Question 6

According to this chapter, race is defined as 'the hierarchical adjudication of human competencies through the categorizing of group attributes, wherein groups are delineated by some kind of shared heritage that is deemed visually identifiable through visual or other sensate cues'.

Question 7

Between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century, approximately __________ Africans were trafficked in the 'slave trade'.

A) 12,000
B) 120,000
C) 1,200,000
D) 12,000,000

Question 8

Why did European abolitionists not abandon racism in their politics?

A) They argued that the biological calculus persisted.
B) They argued that both the biological calculus and the cultural calculus persisted.
C) They argued that 'negroes' lacked the cultural competencies to be treated as fully human.
D) None of the options are correct; abolitionists were not racists.

Question 9

Approximately, how many Africans trafficked during the slave trade died during the journey?

A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 15%
D) 20%

Question 10

The 'standard of civilization'…

A) Was used to judge the cultural competencies of the peoples swept up in Europe's imperial expansion.
B) Divided the Pacific into three racial zones.
C) Was also known as la mission civilisatrice.
D) All of the options given are correct.

Question 11

Which of the UN's bodies issued the 1950 Statement on Race?

A) UNESCO
B) ECOSOC
C) The UN Security Council
D) The General Assembly

Question 12

Who is the originator of eugenics?

A) Charles Darwin
B) Francis Galton
C) Patrick Joseph Hayes
D) William Inge

Question 13

'New racism' emerged as…

A) A response to terrorism and the war on terror.
B) A response to the European 'refugee crisis'.
C) A response to an increase in peoples migrating to Europe from old colonies.
D) A response to economic migrants who come to the global 'North'.

Question 14

Who controversially argued that Islamic politics could only pursue 'a perpetual state of war until the entire world either embraced Islam or submitted to the rule of the Muslim state'?

A) Bernard Lewis.
B) Samuel P. Huntington
C) George W. Bush
D) Francis Fukuyama

Question 15

When did the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination enter into force?

A) 1959
B) 1969
C) 1979
D) 1989