Question 1

Recent government data indicate that black workers have unemployment rates equal to white workers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Once in place, oppressive institutions have demonstrated great social inertia and persistence. Explain this phenomenon in terms of how when the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution put an end to legal African American enslavement, systemic racism soon took the form of officially sanctioned segregation.

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Question 3

Influential scholars and intellectuals like ____________ in Europe and ____________ in the U.S. lent their authority to the "scientific" notion of a hierarchy of races.

Accepted Answer

A)  Christian Wolff; Benjamin Franklin 
B)  Immanuel Kant; Thomas Jefferson 
C)  Friedrich Nietzsche; James Madison 
D)  Arthur Schopenhauer; John Jay 
E)  Jürgen Habermas; Alexander Hamilton

Question 4

What was the significance of the compromise reached and placed in Article 1, Section 9?

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Question 5

W.E.B. DuBois superbly argued that whiteness serves as a "public and psychological wage," delivering to poor whites in the 19th and early 20th centuries a valuable social status derived from their classification as "not-black." The claims embedded in DuBois's thesis include:

Accepted Answer

A)  that whiteness provides meaningful "compensation" for citizens otherwise exploited by the organization of capitalism. 
B)  that the value of whiteness depends on the devaluation of black existence. 
C)  that benefits enjoyed by whites are not strictly monetary. 
D)  All the above

Question 6

Sociologist Jennifer Mueller's research on white families and families of color in a southwestern state has demonstrated in dramatic detail the reality of the highly racialized inheritance process at play in U.S. society. Explain.

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Question 7

Once slavery was abolished, and the movement for white women's rights accelerated in the late nineteenth century, what did numerous white leaders in this women's movement do in regards to significant concerns of black women and men?

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Question 8

Discuss how the white male founders' decisions and understandings still shape our lives in a great many ways.

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Question 9

Describe how thinker-activists Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois long ago put white society and its established institutions at the center of critical analyses of white racism.

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Question 10

Whether free or enslaved, African Americans were not to be citizens or voters, yet 60 percent of their number could be counted to enlarge white representation in the states.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Describe what was at "the heart of the Constitution"?

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Question 12

Due to class and gender differences, not all white Americans benefit from white privilege.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Generally speaking, according to the "founders," were Indigenous peoples part of the new nation? Explain.

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Question 14

Some framers of the Constitution realized that they were divesting black people of their humanity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Analyzing Europe's colonization of Africa, what did W.E.B. DuBois demonstrate?

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Question 16

Explain what historian Herbert Aptheker meant when he wrote that the Constitution was a "bourgeois-democratic document for the governing of a slaveholder-capitalist republic."

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Question 17

All the following men enslaved people of African descent EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A)  religious leader Cotton Mather, the famous Puritan. 
B)  religious leader William Penn, a Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania. 
C)  the founder of U.S. psychiatry, Dr. Benjamin Rush. 
D)  men of politics Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, and Sam Houston. 
E)  the sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams.

Question 18

____________ was the first social scientist to analyze fully the emergence of the dominant idea of whiteness and of a white-racist order extending beyond the U.S.

Accepted Answer

A)  W.E.B. Du Bois 
B)  Frederick Douglass 
C)  Oliver C. Cox 
D)  Ida B. Wells-Barnett 
E)  Anna Julia Cooper

Exam 1: Systemic Racism-A Comprehensive Perspective

Recent government data indicate that black workers have unemployment rates equal to white workers.

Influential scholars and intellectuals like in Europe and in the U.S. lent their authority to the "scientific" notion of a hierarchy of races.

What was the significance of the compromise reached and placed in Article 1, Section 9?

W.E.B. DuBois superbly argued that whiteness serves as a "public and psychological wage," delivering to poor whites in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries a valuable social status derived from their classification as "not-black." The claims embedded in DuBois's thesis include:

Sociologist Jennifer Mueller's research on white families and families of color in a southwestern state has demonstrated in dramatic detail the reality of the highly racialized inheritance process at play in U.S. society. Explain.

Once slavery was abolished, and the movement for white women's rights accelerated in the late nineteenth century, what did numerous white leaders in this women's movement do in regards to significant concerns of black women and men?

Discuss how the white male founders' decisions and understandings still shape our lives in a great many ways.

Describe how thinker-activists Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois long ago put white society and its established institutions at the center of critical analyses of white racism.

Whether free or enslaved, African Americans were not to be citizens or voters, yet 60 percent of their number could be counted to enlarge white representation in the states.

Describe what was at "the heart of the Constitution"?

Due to class and gender differences, not all white Americans benefit from white privilege.

Generally speaking, according to the "founders," were Indigenous peoples part of the new nation? Explain.

Some framers of the Constitution realized that they were divesting black people of their humanity.

Analyzing Europe's colonization of Africa, what did W.E.B. DuBois demonstrate?

Explain what historian Herbert Aptheker meant when he wrote that the Constitution was a "bourgeois-democratic document for the governing of a slaveholder-capitalist republic."

All the following men enslaved people of African descent EXCEPT:

____________ was the first social scientist to analyze fully the emergence of the dominant idea of whiteness and of a white-racist order extending beyond the U.S.