Deck 31: What Is Racial Domination

Question 1

Race involves all of the following except ______.

A) innate qualities
B) phenotypes
C) symbolic categories
D) social contexts

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which fallacy about racism claims that U.S. history is inconsequential?

A) ahistorical fallacy
B) fixed fallacy
C) legalistic fallacy
D) tokenistic fallacy

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The primary social division during the Middle Ages was ______.

A) White and Black
B) brown and indigenous
C) colored and mixed race
D) "civilized" and "uncivilized"

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When did race obtain its modern meaning?

A) during the Middle Ages
B) during the late eighteenth century
C) immediately after World War I
D) immediately after Apartheid

Question 5

According to the author, racial domination survives by ______.

A) exploiting whiteness
B) tracking itself
C) reinventing colonization
D) erasing its history

Question 6

A rule that stated that anyone who was one thirty-second Black-regardless of what they looked like-was legally "Black" is known as ______.

A) the one thirty-second rule
B) the individualistic fallacy
C) optimization
D) intersectionality

Question 7

For most of America's history, race was determined by ______.

A) national origin
B) skin color
C) one's behavior
D) the courts

Question 8

Which state has the highest number of hate groups?

A) Texas
B) Georgia
C) South Carolina
D) California

Question 9

According to the author, modes of oppression are most similar to ______.

A) crisscrossing roads
B) points of an intersection
C) a triangle
D) a web

Question 10

Which landmark case abolished de jure segregation in schools?

A) Texas v. Johnson
B) Brown v. Board of Education
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) Gideon v. Wainwright

Question 11

Explain how race is a well-founded fiction.

Question 12

How are racial categories naturalized?

Question 13

Why cannot race, ethnicity, and nationality be understood in isolation from one another?

Question 14

Describe how national lawmakers have historically defined racial categories in the United States.

Question 15

Choose one fallacy about racism. Define the fallacy and provide an example.