Deck 7: Racial Reaction: Containment and Rearticulation

Question 1

Other than the Great Transformation's challenges to the racial state, what other historical event do Omi and Winant suggest also challenged the racial state before the 1960s?

A) The American Industrial Revolution
B) The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S.A.
C) The Great Depression and World War II
D) The American Civil War and Reconstruction Era .
E) 9/11 and the War on Terror

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What was the central objective of the racial reaction after the 1960s?

A) To encourage individualism and support capitalism
B) To mobilize support for more government-based interventions like affirmative action
C) To provide clear evidence of of discrimination in all major institutions
D) To find ways to divide and conquer race-, gender-based, and class-based movements
E) To demobilize the black and other minority movements .

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The FBI's COINTELPRO is an example of how the U.S. political system

A) Based on the continuous violent repression of all social movements.
B) Used unlawful and violent means to repress radical minority movements .
C) Abandoned the war on poverty and channeled addictive drugs to minority communities.
D) Incorporated non-whites into key roles in American institutions.
E) Repressed not only minority, but also white nationalist organizations.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When local and state politicians opposed busing children to desegregate schools by saying that it was an assault by the government on American family and community ideals , they were

A) Supporting racial integration of schools.
B) Using code words to indirectly challenge racial themes .
C) Expressing the verdict of U.S. courts that busing was illegal.
D) Articulating the position of "massive resistance" to desegregation.
E) Reminding the federal government of their obligations to enforce civil rights laws.

Question 5

Regents of UC v. Bakke was a legal challenge to affirmative action-based university admissions policies. It is invoked by neoconservatives who argue that affirmative action is an example of

A) The American Dream.
B) Racial equality for all groups.
C) The illusion of meritocracy.
D) Reverse racism .
E) The separate but equal doctrine.

Question 6

Reactionary racial projects that challenged the civil rights era articulations of race and racism succeeded in

A) Their support of all group interests in politics, regardless of race, class, or gender.
B) Their prosecution of racist politicians and organizations for racist crimes.
C) Rearticulating the meaning of equality and justice in ways that downplayed race and racism .
D) Successfully dismantling legalized segregation and discrimination in the U.S.A.
E) Linking the civil rights movement with capitalist development

Question 7

Which reactionary racial project suggested that radicalization of the black movement and its call for collective rights was an attack on American democracy and individual rights?

A) Liberal statism
B) Black power
C) Code words
D) American nativism
E) Neoconservatism .

Question 8

As a reactionary racial project, the new right often did all of the following, except

A) Use code words to cover of racist meaning and intent.
B) Argue against big government involvement for local decision-making.
C) Express racial resentment towards the black movement.
D) Support the successful integration of minorities into institutional positions .
E) Suggest racism was dead after the Civil Rights Movement.

Question 9

Omi and Winant suggest that phrases like "Law and order," "Get tough on crime," and "family values" were used by politicians to express racial resentment in new ways. They identify these discursive examples as

A) Code words .
B) Reverse racism
C) Non-white subjectivity
D) Racial resentment
E) Black nationalism

Question 10

What political ideology argued that since legal systems of discrimination had been dismantled, any policy or practice that encouraged special treatment based on group rights was an infringement on individual rights?

A) Black nationalism
B) Neoconservatism .
C) Racial liberalism
D) Code words
E) Socialism

Question 11

During the 1950s and 1960s, minority movements did all of the following except

A) Demand the incorporation of racially defined "others."
B) Rearticulate collective black subjectivity.
C) Democratize structurally racist institutions.
D) Challenge the U.S.A. to recognize and validate racially defined experience and identity.
E) Ended the use of race and racism in U.S. political and economic systems .

Question 12

Which of the following individuals were pivotal in the neoconservative movement's efforts to establish and recognize "reverse discrimination?"

A) Richard Nixon .
B) Lewis Powell
C) E. Franklin Frazier
D) W.E.B. Du Bois
E) Jimmy Carter

Question 13

Omi and Winant suggest that the notion of "reverse racism" was eventually replaced by which rearticulation of race and racism in the 1980s to present?

A) Multiculturalism
B) Scientific racism
C) Black racism
D) Colorblind racial ideology .
E) Ethnocentrism