Deck 15: Theories of Race and Colonialism

Question 1

Frantz Fanon agreed with Marx in regard to _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) capitalism as an exploitative system
B) ideology, especially religious ideology as oppressive
C) material dialectics
D) socialism as a better alternative to capitalism

Answer 1

A, B, C, D

Question 2

According to Frantz Fanon, which of the following is a psychological effect of colonial racism?

A) A dialectical recognition is key to undoing the White master and Black slave identities and consciousness.
B) Dehumanization occurs through objectification of the body.
C) In our color-blind society, racism only operates at the macro level.
D) Blacks develop a double-consciousness because of their metaphorical veil.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Frantz Fanon thought the domination that occurs via colonialism is _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) biological
B) cultural
C) psychological
D) political

Answer 3

B, C, D

Question 4

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?

A) The focus on contemporary colonialism overlooks the egregious atrocities of the past.
B) The roles of culture, knowledge, and representation have been overemphasized in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West was unable to create an image of itself through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) Decolonized consciousness can be created through new kinds of knowledge.

Question 5

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?

A) Even though colonialism is historic; it still continues to shape contemporary conceptions of race and ethnicity.
B) The roles of culture, knowledge, and representation have been overemphasized in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West was unable to create an image of itself through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) The postmodern deconstruction of knowledge failed to yield colonialist knowledge.

Question 6

Frantz Fanon thought the domination that occurs via colonialism is _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) biological
B) cultural
C) psychological
D) political

Question 7

According to Frantz Fanon, which of the following is a psychological effect of colonial racism? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A dialectical recognition creates and enforces a White master and Black slave identities and consciousness.
B) Dehumanization occurs through objectification of the body.
C) Race and racism is infused into micro-social encounters because of macro-cultural frameworks.
D) Blacks develop a double-consciousness because of their metaphorical veil.

Question 8

According to social theorists, race is a(n) _____.

A) social construction
B) biological fact
C) ethnicity
D) colonialist

Question 9

According to Frantz Fanon, violence _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) is traumatic for those who perpetuate it.
B) can act as a cleansing force for the colonized.
C) can help develop a collective consciousness.
D) is traumatic for those who suffer it.

Question 10

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?

A) The contemporary focus on colonialism overlooks the egregious atrocities of the past.
B) There should be an emphasis on the roles of culture, knowledge, and representation played in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West was unable to create an image of itself through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) The postmodern deconstruction of knowledge failed to yield colonialist knowledge.

Question 11

Which of the following is centered on how racial domination is perpetuated by law?

A) Race theory
B) Critical race theory
C) Theories of race
D) Critical theories of race

Question 12

According to Frantz Fanon, which of the following is a psychological effect of colonial racism?

A) A dialectical recognition is key to undoing the White master and Black slave identities and consciousness.
B) Humanization occurs through objectification of the body.
C) Race and racism is infused into micro-social encounters because of macro-cultural frameworks.
D) Blacks develop a double-consciousness because of their metaphorical veil.

Question 13

According to Frantz Fanon, which of the following is a psychological effect of colonial racism?

A) A dialectical recognition creates and enforces a White master and Black slave identities and consciousness.
B) Humanization occurs through objectification of the body.
C) In our color-blind society, racism only operates at the macro level.
D) Blacks develop a double-consciousness because of their metaphorical veil.

Question 14

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?

A) The focus on contemporary colonialism overlooks the egregious atrocities of the past.
B) The roles of culture, knowledge, and representation have been overemphasized in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West was unable to create an image of itself through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) Just as postmodernist call for; the largely Western, taken-for-granted knowledge needs deconstructed.

Question 15

Frantz Fanon thought the racial distinctions that colonialism requires were _____.

A) symbolic
B) emotional
C) neither symbolic nor emotional
D) both symbolic and emotional

Question 16

According to Emirbayer and Desmond, ethnicity entails _____ differences. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) lifestyle
B) religious
C) cultural
D) biological

Question 17

According to Edward Said, orientalism is _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) an academic field of study
B) an East-West distinction
C) a way of thinking that creates eastern dominance of the East over the West.
D) a biological identity

Question 18

According to Emirbayer and Desmond, race entails _____. Select all, but only those that apply.

A) social construction
B) symbolic categories based on phenotypes
C) symbolic categories based on ancestry
D) biological categories

Question 19

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Even though colonialism is historic; it still continues to shape contemporary conceptions of race and ethnicity.
B) There should be an emphasis on the roles of culture, knowledge, and representation played in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West empowered its own image through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) Just as postmodernist call for; the largely Western, taken-for-granted knowledge needs deconstructed.
E) Decolonized consciousness can be created through new kinds of knowledge.

Question 20

Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?

A) The focus on contemporary colonialism overlooks the egregious atrocities of the past.
B) The roles of culture, knowledge, and representation have been overemphasized in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants.
C) The West empowered its own image through encounters with colonized peoples.
D) The postmodern deconstruction of knowledge failed to yield colonialist knowledge.

Question 21

Which part of a dynamic theory of race refers to how people do not have a race imposed upon them but rather create, reproduce, and resist a system of racial categories?

A) Structural field of race
B) Agency
C) Concrete manifestations
D) Racial projects

Question 22

According to Omi and Winant, which concept refers to how despite talk of racial equality, racism and racial inequalities persist because of both individual and structural practices?

A) Racialization
B) Racial projects
C) Color-blind racism
D) Racial politics

Question 23

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory?

A) Racism is an aberration of everyday life.
B) Everyone has incentives to eradicate racism.
C) Race is a social construction, not an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) In being constructed by the dominant group, minority groups are largely homogenous.
E) There is no possibility of eliminating racial oppression.

Question 24

Whose critical theory of race and racism focuses on how "race matters" throughout all the structures and institutions of society?

A) Darder and Torres
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 25

Whose critical theory of race and racism incorporates Karl Marx's materialist approach to incorporate political economy?

A) Darder and Torres
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 26

Which part of a dynamic theory of race refers to how race is played out in everyday interactions, formal social institutions, and interstitial spaces?

A) Structural field of race
B) Agency
C) Concrete manifestations
D) Racial projects

Question 27

Which type of agency describes how people spontaneously and dynamically engage unspoken racial rules?

A) Field agency
B) Practical-evaluative agency
C) Iterative agency
D) Projective agency

Question 28

Whose critical theory of race and racism operates at both the macro and micro levels to emphasize how racial inequality is historically accumulated?

A) Darder and Torres
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 29

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory?

A) Racism is an aberration of everyday life.
B) Everyone has incentives to eradicate racism.
C) Race an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) Dominant groups racialize minority groups.
E) There is no possibility of eliminating racial oppression.

Question 30

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory?

A) Racism is difficult to eliminate because it is a normal part of life.
B) Everyone has incentives to eradicate racism.
C) Race an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) In being constructed by the dominant group, minority groups are largely homogenous.
E) There is no possibility of eliminating racial oppression.

Question 31

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) Racism is difficult to eliminate because it is a normal part of life.
B) The majority of the population has little incentive to eradicate racism.
C) Race is a social construction, not an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) Dominant groups racialize minority groups.
E) Minority groups are internally diverse.

Question 32

According to Omi and Winant, which concept refers to how races are culturally defined and structurally assigned resources?

A) Racialization
B) Racial projects
C) Color-blind racism
D) Racial politics

Question 33

According to Omi and Winant, which concept refers to the ways human bodies are infused with historically dependent, social, and symbolic meanings?

A) Racialization
B) Racial projects
C) Color-blind racism
D) Racial politics

Question 34

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory?

A) Racism is an aberration of everyday life.
B) The majority of the population has little incentive to eradicate racism.
C) Race an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) In being constructed by the dominant group, minority groups are largely homogenous.
E) There is no possibility of eliminating racial oppression.

Question 35

Which of the following is a tenet of critical race theory?

A) Racism is an aberration of everyday life.
B) Everyone has incentives to eradicate racism.
C) Race an objective or fixed part of reality.
D) In being constructed by the dominant group, minority groups are largely homogenous.
E) Minority groups are internally diverse.

Question 36

Whose critical theory of race and racism draws an analogy between a miner's canary and race in society?

A) Darder and Torres
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 37

Which of the following do critical theories both race and racism have in common? Select all, but only those that apply.

A) A confrontation of social injustices.
B) A goal to reduce or eliminate of social inequalities.
C) An incorporation of intersectionality.
D) A utilization of legal scholarship and social science.

Question 38

Which of the following is centered on racial domination through agency-structure, political economy, and globalization?

A) Race theory
B) Critical race theory
C) Theories of racism
D) Critical theories of race and racism

Question 39

Whose critical theory of race and racism focuses on how "race matters" throughout all the structures and institutions of society?

A) Omi and Winant
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 40

Whose critical theory of race and racism draws heavily on intersectionality?

A) Darder and Torres
B) Michael Brown et al.
C) Guinier and Torres
D) Patricia Hill Collins
E) Cornell West

Question 41

Frantz Fanon argues that for Indigenous people, colonialism has yet to end.

Question 42

Frantz Fanon worked a psychiatrist, not a sociologist.

Question 43

Race reveals powerful critiques of truth and objectivity of Western science, including sociology.

Question 44

Which of the following Native Studies concept refers to how Western governments are trying to rectify the atrocities committed on Indigenous peoples?

A) Politics of recognition
B) Cultural flourishing
C) Cognitive imperialism
D) Resurgence

Question 45

Since it is biologically unreal, race cannot be a source of solidarity.

Question 46

Colonialism legitimizes violence through socially constructed racial hierarchies.

Question 47

All contemporary social theories of race contest the once common idea that race entails a natural, biological difference between people.

Question 48

While the era of colonialism has ended; even in our contemporary period of neocolonialization racialized inequalities still exist.

Question 49

If W.E.B. DuBois were alive today, he would be exalted that we solved the 20th century "problem of the color line."

Question 50

If W.E.B. DuBois were alive today, he would likely say the problem of the 21st century is still "the problem of the color line."

Question 51

Which type of agency describes how people utilize the traditions and customs from the past that construct the racial order?

A) Field agency
B) Practical-evaluative agency
C) Iterative agency
D) Projective agency

Question 52

Colonialism is always operated through administrative rule.

Question 53

Most contemporary social theories of race are based on the assumption there are natural, biological difference between people.

Question 54

Which type of agency describes how people look toward the future when acting and interaction in the existing racial order?

A) Field agency
B) Practical-evaluative agency
C) Iterative agency
D) Projective agency

Question 55

Just as Frantz Fanon predicted, decolonization destroyed the power structures of colonialism.

Question 56

Frantz Fanon thinks colonialism stands in the way of free human consciousness.

Question 57

Postcolonial theorists argue that Western knowledge oversimplifies the distinction between the European world and the rest of the world.

Question 58

Most contemporary social theorists agree that the modern racial order emerges out of colonialism.

Question 59

Which of the following Native Studies concept refers to how the regeneration of uniquely Indigenous knowledge?

A) Politics of recognition
B) Cultural flourishing
C) Cognitive imperialism
D) Resurgence

Question 60

Frantz Fanon argues Negritude stands in the way of free human consciousness.

Question 61

Southern Theory can only be utilized to critique northern theories because their knowledge base is so far outside the Western world that dominates the globe in the era of globalization.

Question 62

According to Emirbayer and Desmond, those with White social capital have the power to define the racial field.

Question 63

Edward Said both describes Orientalism as a particular kind of racialized knowledge while retaining relevancy to contemporary East-West relations.

Question 64

Southern Theory found in religious rituals and stories, art and local political movements challenges northern assumption about what is, and is not theory.

Question 65

Critical race theory came about because of the successes of the civil rights movement.

Question 66

Many critical theories of race and racism make use of Western (and therefore racists) theoretical traditions.

Question 67

Compare and contrast critical theories of race with critical theories of race and racism.

Question 68

Critical race theory has always been central to sociology.

Question 69

Postcolonial theorists argue that Western knowledge fails to distinguish between the Western world and the rest of the world.

Question 70

Southern Theory affirms the importance of abstract texts as a means and medium of theoretical communication.

Question 71

Edward Said finds with his discourse analysis that is actual an Orient because such a way of thinking infuses a variety of regions and cultures that have little, if anything in common into a single category.

Question 72

Explain how colonialism was, and still is central to the understanding of race and racism.

Question 73

Some Indigenous tribes in the United States live on reservations which are technically a type of apartheid or legal segregation because these places are their own nations within a nation. Building on Southern Theory and Indigenous Resurgence, explain how this sense of native-twoness could be utilized to develop a unique perspective on society.

Question 74

Southern Theory was developed in the American Southeast or "The old Confederacy."

Question 75

Emirbayer and Desmond's collective-emotional structures challenge Omi and Winant's conceptualization of racial formation.