Question 1

How do Hawley and Flint connect Darren Wilson's grand jury testimony to historic justifications for Black enslavement? What underlying message about Black men do these have in common?

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Question 2

According to Hawley and Flint,_____depictions of Black masculinity have been used to justify state-sanctioned violence against Black men and boys.

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A)  alternative 
B)  animalistic 
C)  anatomical 
D)  anachronistic

Question 3

Discuss the reaction of police officers after the men were maced. Consider any differences that might have been evident in their reactions if Jeremiah and Carlos had sprayed mace in to the faces of the white men, instead of being the ones attacked with mace. Would the police officers likely have asked if the white men were gang members? Would they still have considered the possibility that the Filipino men were gang members? What evidence do you find in this story to support your answer?

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Question 4

The author believes the police questioned him and Carlos about possible gang membership because_____.

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A)  the police thought the white men who attacked Carlos and his friend might have been in a gang 
B)  the police saw gang insignias tattooed on the boys' bodies 
C)  among the hundreds of thousands of Filipino youth living in Palo Alto at that time many thousands were known to be in gangs 
D)  the police made a racist assumption that young Asian men are likely to be gang members

Question 5

Briefly summarize what Trask meant when she wrote: "I was reading the West's view of itself through the degradation of my own past." Provide at least three examples that she uses to base this conclusion.

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Question 6

What are the reasons argued that literature by women of Color is not taught in college classes? What do you think could be some solutions to make it possible?

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Question 7

What examples of the "Magical Negro" portrayal can you think of in films or literature? How can depicting a black man as having supernatural power or primordial goodness be harmful?

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Question 8

According to the article, the first step in the colonizing process is_____.

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A)  learning the native language of the people 
B)  the deculturation of a people 
C)  infanticide 
D)  assimilation of the colonizers to the native culture

Question 9

In Lorde's article, she argues that the need for unity is often misrepresented as a need for_____.

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A)  oppression 
B)  equality 
C)  homogeneity 
D)  heterogeneity

Question 10

What does Lorde argue as being the importance of poetry? How is it seen as a different art form?

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Question 11

We see in this story several angry young men. Discuss how each man handles his anger. What does each man do? What are the consequences of how each man deals with his angry feelings? How is race related to the consequences each man gets for the way he handled his anger in this true story?

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Question 12

How did the land tenure changes instituted by Westerners affect Hawaiians?

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Question 13

What kind of racism does the author identify as most prominent in this story?

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A)  covert 
B)  institutionalized 
C)  overt 
D)  structural

Question 14

What are differences discussed by Lorde that are faced by White women when compared to women of Color?

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Question 15

According to Hawley and Flint, Black boys and youth become targets of violence because they are_____.

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A)  less mature than their White peers 
B)  more likely than White peers to own firearms 
C)  less likely than White peers to be viewed as children 
D)  more likely than White peers to practice traditional spirituality

Question 16

As trauma chaplains, Hawley and Flint have observed that_____.

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A)  Black pain and grief often go unrecognized and unacknowledged in hospitals 
B)  Black men are stoic patients who do not wish to receive chaplaincy services 
C)  Black health care is at least as effective as that received by White Americans 
D)  health care workers stereotype Black patients as more susceptible to pain

Question 17

By claiming that Hawaiians lived under feudalism, Whites_____.

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A)  alienated the Hawaiian people from the land 
B)  instituted land tenure changes in line with current notions of private property 
C)  degraded a successful system of shared land use 
D)  all of these answers are correct

Exam 1: Why Race, Class, and Gender Still Matter