Deck 11: Towards Racial Justice

Question 1

Which of the following would not be considered a civic responsibility?

A) voting for city council
B) attend class, take notes, and study
C) help repair town after disaster
D) obey traffic laws to ensure safety
E) resupply books to public library after fire

Answer 1

attend class, take notes, and study

Question 2

Which of the following would not be considered a personal responsibility?

A) doing jail time for a crime you committed
B) caring for a child you bore
C) voting for mayor of your town
D) studying for and taking an SAT
E) paying for something you borrowed and broke

Answer 2

voting for mayor of your town

Question 3

Which of the following is not an option when attempting to reach a racially just society?

A) caring about racial injustice
B) recognizing race
C) racial naiveté
D) cultural labor
E) stepping out of your comfort zone

Answer 3

racial naiveté

Question 4

Intellectually rigorous, creative, and a radical alternative for society "grounded in the real potentials of humanity"are referred to as:

A) public spheres.
B) civil superstructures.
C) real utopias.
D) union of republics.
E) none of these

Question 5

Which of the following spoke of real utopias in both their speeches and their visions?

A) Martin Luther King Jr.
B) plantation owners
C) Adolph Hitler
D) Joseph Stalin
E) the KKK

Question 6

To which academic discipline does intelligence have to do with one's ability to exercise good judgment in a world full of uncertainty?

A) economics
B) history
C) philosophy
D) physics
E) accounting

Question 7

Which of the following attributes are needed when utilizing racial intelligence?

A) "common" sense
B) emotionally charged decision-making
C) logic
D) thinking by routine
E) performing groupthink

Question 8

Which sociologist said the following regarding intelligence and freedom: "the social task of reason [, therefore,] is to formulate choices, to enlarge the scope of human decisions in the making of history"?

A) Karl Marx
B) C.Wright Mills
C) W.E.B. Du Bois
D) Emile Durkheim
E) Michel Foucault

Question 9

Who are the main parties involved within the scientization of politics and public opinion introduced by Jü rgen Habermas?

A) citizens and military leaders
B) the press and government
C) politicians and scientists
D) citizens and scientists
E) the press and the President

Question 10

Which of the following would be the first step necessary to achieving racial justice in the economic field?

A) more affirmative action programs
B) eradication of racialized poverty
C) subsidies for nonwhite business owners
D) more government jobs for nonwhite citizens
E) none of these

Question 11

A residential field guided by racial justice would help to eliminate which of the following?

A) chronic poverty
B) educational inequality
C) imbalanced political representation
D) housing discrimination
E) all of these

Question 12

The ideal of the United States as a melting pot, in which out-groups lose their distinctive identities over time and gradually become absorbed in a preexisting, overarching American identity is referred to as:

A) hyphenation.
B) assimilation.
C) amalgamation.
D) racial melding.
E) cross-culturalization.

Question 13

Which of the following is not one of the steps in the cycle of events in race relations as proposed by Robert Park of the Chicago School?

A) contact
B) accommodation
C) conflict
D) hyphenation
E) assimilation

Question 14

Which of the following is a difficulty regarding Kallen's ideal of the hyphenated, culturally pluralistic society?

A) ethnic groups are inert, unchanging entities
B) it places too much emphasis on Asian communities
C) it centers itself on Latin American immigrants only
D) too many voices without a clear leader
E) ethnic groups depicted as too dynamic and chaotic

Question 15

Multicultural incorporation rests upon which of the following principles?

A) we have civic responsibility to all peoples
B) forcing immigrants to learn English
C) we must be suspicious of others' differences
D) declining social services for those who can't pay
E) we have responsibility to our immediate families only

Question 16

A recent survey showed what percentage of college freshman listed "helping promote racial understanding"as one of their life goals?

A) 75%
B) 52%
C) 43%
D) 25%
E) 10%

Question 17

Diversity management training programs fail on which of the following grounds, according to researchers?

A) does nothing to bust through glass ceilings
B) danger in seeing differences as benign variation
C) reify race in fallacious ways
D) programs too short to have an effect
E) all of these

Question 18

Going to war, especially a war on racial domination, requires which of the following?

A) wisdom
B) strategy
C) reason
D) courage
E) all of these

Question 19

At which level do we need to focus on in the struggle for racial justice?

A) ourselves
B) our inner circle
C) our institutions
D) our nation
E) all of these

Question 20

Which of the following would be considered an example of disingenuous reflexivity?

A) "I treat everyone the same"
B) "I hate only white people"
C) "I am kinda racist"
D) "I only trust Latinos"
E) "I like Latinos but hate Asians"

Question 21

What is the starting point for the development of a racially sensitive reflexivity?

A) volunteering at a soup kitchen
B) living with an immigrant family
C) applying a sociological imagination upon the self
D) talking to nonwhite acquaintances about race
E) speaking to a psychologist about racism

Question 22

What question should we ask ourselves when attempting to assess which forces control our imaginations and affect our thinking and behavior?

A) Is my idea correct?
B) From where does my information come?
C) How do I know that this is the truth?
D) How is it that I know the world works in this way?
E) all of these

Question 23

Many whites believe that racial equality already has been achieved, while many nonwhites hold that little has changed since the Civil Rights Movement; yet the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Question 24

There does not exist in history a time that comes close to the record of America in changing majority attitudes, in guaranteeing legal and political rights, and in expanding socioeconomic opportunities for its disadvantaged minorities.

Question 25

In such a world as ours, to practice social science is, first of all, to practice the politics of truth.

Question 26

There is no difference between opinion and truth.

Question 27

Not all opinions are equal; some are quite wrong and ought to be labeled as such.

Question 28

The real utopia discussed in your chapter relies upon intelligence and rationality - not self-interest, ignorance, blind opinions, tradition, or ideology to govern their conduct.

Question 29

In a new American democracy, patriotism would be measured by the extent we nod "yes"to everything party officials say rather than by the extent to which we critically evaluate our society and strive to change things for the better.

Question 30

During Jim Crow, racial domination was obvious and legal; but today, racial domination can be more elusive and complicated, ghostlike and difficult to confront.

Question 31

The hyphenationist says, "You may enter, but only if you leave your old ways behind. You have nothing to teach us; our ways are better than yours. If you'd like to join us, you have to check your culture at the door."

Question 32

Robert Park's view on race was less Anglo-centric and more upbeat than that of Edward Ross.

Question 33

Hyphenation encourages a type of hybridization and thereby functions as a midway point between assimilation and multiculturalism.

Question 34

Hyphenation has also sometimes gone under the banner of "cultural pluralism."

Question 35

Multiculturalism in its purest form abolishes ethnic hierarchies and values, respects, and tries to understand all peoples.

Question 36

In terms of combating racial domination, it is not a question of if we will change things but how we will for the better or for the worse.

Question 37

In the 1980s, affirmative action policies were weakened by President Reagan resulting ultimately in transforming affirmative action into diversity training.

Question 38

When diversity management programs are critically analyzed, these programs are poor substitutes for more aggressive antiracist initiatives.

Question 39

Hanging a poster of Guevara in your room or wearing a political t-shirt is an effect means of joining a revolution or ending racism.

Question 40

The goal for dealing with our own interpersonal racism is not perfection but critical self-engagement, not complete purification but rigorous reflexivity.

Question 41

Honest reflexivity confronts the self in its full complexity, and it does not shy away from the nasty parts but seeks them out in order to set them straight.

Question 42

Studies have shown that most persons have deeply held negative associations with minority groups that can lead to subtle discrimination without conscious awareness.

Question 43

It is important to remember that reflexivity is a fundamentally individual enterprise.

Question 44

The two simplest guidelines for coalition building are join and reach.

Question 45

Answer one of the questions posed in your text: does the assimilationist ideal persist in altered form today in the United States with the "measure and standard"no longer being restricted to Americans of British stock? Draw upon your own family experiences to provide support for your answer.

Question 46

Discuss your experiences engaging in civic responsibility and how such a concept was taught to you. Do your experiences and education about civics match up? How might they change after having read this textbook?

Question 47

Write an essay contrasting utopias from real utopias. Explain what work must be done to achieve each form.

Question 48

Explain what an individual must do in order to increase her or his racial intelligence. Assess your level of racial intelligence entering the class and how you plan to increase it after finishing the class.

Question 49

Define and contrast the concepts of assimilation, hyphenation, and multiculturalism. How can we as a society instill some of these concepts while at the same time phase out certain others in order to move towards the end of racial domination?

Question 50

Using either yourself or a friend as an example, define and explain what real versus pseudo change is regarding race relations, cultural labor, and racial intelligence? How would you suggest moving someone from the ability of enacting pseudo change to affecting real change?

Question 51

Define disingenuous reflexivity and give real life examples of it regarding racial intelligence. If you have been guilty of such reflexivity, how can you alter this type of thinking?

Question 52

Contrast affirmative action programs with diversity management programs. If you have personal experience attending one of these programs at a job, explain the positive and negative effects such programs have on employee's racial intelligence and racial inequality in the workplace.

Question 53

Explain the four useful techniques for holding people accountable for their prejudices. Then compare these steps with any experiences you have attempting to hold people accountable. If you never have tried, imagine attempting the techniques on someone you know who is overtly racist. Where would the difficulties come with this person? How well would it go?

Question 54

List and define the seven successful components of political protest. How many protest movements do you think follow these steps? Why don't more people regularly protest these days? If you have been involved in a political protest, did it follow these steps?