Deck 15: Thinking Globally: Race and Racisms in France, South Africa, and Brazil

Question 1

In the opening story, journalist Eugene Robinson writes about meeting a Brazilian woman. She was born in a poor part of Brazil where slavery had once persisted. She had "jet-Black hair, flaring nostrils, high cheekbones, and brown skin." When he asked her what it was like to be Black in Brazil, she replied:

A) "I wish I was not Black."
B) "We are the most discriminated against."
C) "I'm not Black. I am pardo."
D) "I'm not Black."

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The countries examined in this chapter each had dynamics of ________ and _________.

A) agricultural and plantation history
B) colonialism and slavery
C) color-blindness and denial
D) civil rights struggle and legal racial discrimination.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

In 1854, a Frenchman was appointed governor of Senegal, which marked the establishment of the French empire in sub-Saharan Africa. What was his name?

A) Louis Léon César Faidherbe
B) Jean Faudoas de Cérillac
C) Jean-Léon Fournier
D) Jacques de Chambly

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When forcibly taking African lands, the French taught African children the following EXCEPT:

A) reading and writing.
B) speak French.
C) Christianity.
D) hygiene.

Question 5

Today in France, Antilleans have access to public administration jobs in France, but they have encountered:

A) a glass ceiling.
B) a lack of training.
C) deep racial hostility.
D) ethnic discrimination.

Question 6

About _________ of the 61 million people who live in France are foreign-born, and only a small percentage of these are undocumented.

A) 20%
B) 15%
C) 10%
D) 5%

Question 7

It is difficult to be sure how much racial or ethnic inequality is in France because:

A) it is famously welcoming and not racist.
B) the state cannot collect systematic data on race or ethnicity.
C) race does not matter.
D) French people voted against collecting data about racism.

Question 8

French youth who live in the suburbs have _________ relationship with the police?

A) an improving
B) nonexistent
C) an ideal
D) an authoritarian

Question 9

The struggle for control for the Cape Colony in South Africa between the British and Afrikaners led to the:

A) Boer War.
B) Maritz Rebellion.
C) Mozambican War.
D) Dutch-British War.

Question 10

In South Africa, the "native" race label was changed to?

A) Oji
B) Dausi
C) Bantu
D) Ata dudu

Question 11

Throughout apartheid, the coloured group was mainly viewed as people who:

A) were Indian.
B) had racial mixture in their lineage.
C) were an Indian/Black mixture.
D) were an Indian/White mixture.

Question 12

Today, coloureds in South Africa still face all the following challenges EXCEPT:

A) low levels of educational attainment.
B) high rates of unemployment.
C) poor health outcomes.
D) systemic racial violence.

Question 13

About ______ of African students and a larger percentage of colored and Indian students are enrolled in previously White schools?

A) 15%
B) 20%
C) 25%
D) 30%

Question 14

Sociologist Nadine Dolby found that the White students in South Africa were similar to Whites in the United States in that they used the phrase:

A) "Race shouldn't matter…"
B) "Your character, not color, matters."
C) "We are never going to be equal if we always talk about race."
D) "I don't want to sound racist, but…"

Question 15

Large numbers of mixed-race children in Brazil are largely the result of:

A) Government policy encouraging mesticagem.
B) Portuguese men frequently engaged in consensual and nonconsensual sexual relations with non-White women.
C) The government bringing European immigrants to help whiten Brazil.
D) Immigrants from other countries migrating to Brazil.

Question 16

Many Brazilian thinkers __________ the Whitening theory where the government posited that Brazil would be a better country the whiter it became.

A) embraced
B) rejected
C) were confused by
D) created

Question 17

The Affirmative Action policy that three states approved reserved _______ of university admission slots for Afro-Brazilian.

A) 20%
B) 30%
C) 40%
D) 50%

Question 18

Daniele de Araújo lived in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro in an area controlled by drug dealers. As she walked home, knowing she was pregnant she prayed that she wanted a girl. She wanted her to be healthy. Most of all, she prayed:

A) "The baby has to be pretty."
B) "The baby has to be White."
C) "The baby has to be pardo."
D) "The baby has to be light-skinned."

Question 19

In Brazil race and color is complicated, however, they would be baffled by the following U.S. events EXCEPT?

A) Charleston, SC church shooting by a White supremacist.
B) The president calling on the country to confront racial inequality.
C) The growing multiracial population.
D) Rachel Doelezal, a White woman, passing as a Black woman.

Question 20

Sociologist Chinyere Osuji interviewed twenty-five married couples in Brazil composed of one Black and one White partner to ask about the practice of whitening. The couples gave the following reasons for marrying their spouse EXCEPT:

A) their partner's intelligence.
B) their partner's social skills.
C) their partners physical beauty.
D) their partners skin color.

Question 21

What role does colonialism play in Brazil, South Africa, and France?

Question 22

What is France's history with slavery?

Question 23

Prior to 1974, what was the immigration relationship of African colonies with France?

Question 24

What is it like for sub-Saharan African and Tunisian immigrants in France today?

Question 25

What was apartheid like in South Africa?

Question 26

What historical event occurred on June 16, 1976 in South Africa?

Question 27

A discussion of inequality would be incomplete without discussing what another significant occurrence?

Question 28

Brazilian social historian, Gilberto Freyere published his book Casa Grande e Senzala in 1933. What were some the main arguments in his book?

Question 29

Despite the assertion that Brazil is a racial democracy, what have other scholars discovered about Brazilians experiences with race?

Question 30

In Brazil, how is race determined and/or measured?

Question 31

To what do South African Black professionals attribute continuing racism in post-Apartheid South Africa?

Question 32

What happened in October 2005 with the youth of the banlieues?

Question 33

After the costly British victory in the Boer War, how was apartheid established?

Question 34

Under apartheid, Fernwood was a government school. What happened to the school post-apartheid?

Question 35

What is Brazil's relationship with race today?