Deck 8: Colorblindness, Neoliberalism, and Obama

Question 1

All of the following are important tenets of neoliberalism except

A) Allowing the market to decide overall equality and justice.
B) Individual rights were more important that group rights.
C) Increasing government efforts to build up the social safety net .
D) Anti-welfare statism.
E) Affirmative action policies should give equal opportunities to all.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Based on Omi and Winant's perspective, what made the discussion of "reverse racism" so powerful in rearticulating the discussion of race in the U.S.A.?

A) It reframed racism as a "race-neutral" matter .
B) It demonstrated that racism impacted white and non-whites unequally.
C) It showed that everyone can get beyond racism.
D) It showed that racism was a zero-sum game and no one can win with hate.
E) It gave room to discuss how blacks are racist towards other non-whites.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

When politicians or celebrities argue that race doesn't matter in shaping individual success or failure in America but hard work and education does, they are using which of the following ideologies?

A) Racial resentment
B) Colorblindness .
C) Scientific racism
D) Neoliberalism
E) Pluralism

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Omi and Winant argue that President Barack Obama has supported the neoliberal agenda established in the 1970s and 1980s. Which of the following is an example of how Obama has done this?

A) Created the Earned Income Tax Credit.
B) Had a "Beer Summit" to address racial profiling.
C) Encouraged Islamophobia after 9/11 but continued to reduce war efforts in the Middle East.
D) Provided bailouts to banks and set up a healthcare bill that benefits insurance companies .
E) Developed comprehensive immigration reform policies that included amnesty.

Question 5

Mass incarceration of blacks and Latinos based on subtly racist policies such as the "War on Drugs" is an example of

A) Depoliticizing the social by removing political engagement and participation .
B) How Reagan cleaned up the streets of many urban ghettos.
C) How Clinton and Obama got tough on crime in the 21st century.
D) How cultural differences still lead to racial differences.
E) How good race-neutral legislation leads to reductions in crime.

Question 6

Omi and Winant suggest that Obama deploys colorblind racial ideology but then occasionally critiques it. Which of the following of Obama's actions characterizes this critique?

A) Giving corporations and banks bail outs but also passing a new health care law
B) Challenging Islamophobia but also using drone warfare in the Middle East.
C) Interceding for blacks against their great loss of wealth during the Great Recession of 2008.
D) Supporting immigration reform to provide a clear "path to citizenship" but also increasing immigrant deportations .
E) Ending affirmative action policies in universities but supporting more non-white scholarships.

Question 7

One of the significant neoliberal policy decisions by Bill Clinton that negatively impacted thousands of non-whites was

A) His support of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
B) His policy of "ending welfare as we know it." .
C) His mistreatment of people in the South after Hurricane Katrina>
D) His relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
E) His creation of the "The President's National Conversation on Race."

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of the "politics of resentment" used by neoliberals?

A) Supporting taxation laws that they argued benefited the undeserving poor
B) Calling for more government intervention and more government spending
C) Suggesting that all groups should receive public assistance, regardless of their identities
D) Supporting repressive policies to be "tough on crime".
E) Calling for more affirmative action policies to diversify public universities

Question 9

Which of the following U.S. presidents used neoliberal and colorblind views to shape their political decisions and initiatives?

A) Barack Obama
B) Ronald Reagan
C) Bill Clinton
D) George H.W. Bush
E) All of the above .

Question 10

Which of the following events mobilized the Tea Party as a racial project?

A) Government bailouts.
B) The possible election of the Hillary Clinton as President in 2016.
C) Continuing fears of the population growths of blacks, Latinos, and other non-whites .
D) Serious infringements on the constitutional rights by the Bush era during the war on terror.
E) Comprehensive reform of federal immigration laws.

Question 11

Anti-immigrant initiatives and legislation, vindictive racial profiling, mass incarceration, and the disenfranchisement of voters of color are all examples of

A) What Obama is doing as President of the U.S.A.
B) How Reagan ended racial equality.
C) The power of the civil rights era to end structural racism
D) The continuing significance of race in a colorblind era (application - Chapter 9).
E) How social class and poor decisions shape individual problems.