Question 1

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "U.S. society is not a multiplicity of disconnected racisms directed at various peoples of color." Explain.

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Question 2

Describe the white-to-black status continuum - the still-commonplace measuring stick of social acceptability.

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Question 3

Describe the white rationale behind some Latinos and Asian Americans being classified, from time-to-time, as honorary whites or near whites.

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Question 4

Define constructive blacks.

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Question 5

Describe how the racist system, developed for African Americans in relation to white communities, was extended to Asian, Native American, and Mexican groups.

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Question 6

Describe the adaptation and application by white workers and their allies of negative racist stereotypes, images, and epithets to describe Chinese workers, which were already used in the dominant white racial frame to defame black Americans.

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Question 7

In 1896, even as he defended some rights for blacks as the lone dissenter in the Plessy v. Ferguson anti-black segregation case, the white Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan said what about the "Chinese race"?

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Question 8

Explain Gary Okihiro's remark, "[I]nsofar as Asians and Africans share a subordinate position to the master class, yellow is a shade of black, and black, a shade of yellow." The two groups are kindred peoples "forged in the fire of white supremacy."

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Question 9

James Phelan, who represented California in the U.S. Senate from 1915 to 1921, claimed that Japanese immigrants were a threat to the "future" of the white race, U.S. institutions, and Western civilization. Describe how Phelan's views are quire similar to those of prominent whites in the age of Trump.

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Question 10

Describe the infamous Gentleman's Agreement between the United States and Japan.

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Question 11

Describe the significance of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem titled, "Take Up the White Man's Burden / Send Forth the Best Ye Breed."

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Question 12

Explain the significance of the Naturalization Act of 1790.

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Question 13

Between 1878 and the 1920s, numerous U.S. courts examined applications for naturalization from members of Asian groups. Describe the courts' decisions.

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Question 14

At the time of the Anglo-American invasion of Texas and California, numerous Mexicans, including in leading families, had much Native American ancestry and frequently some African ancestry. How did this impact the racial framing of Mexicans by whites?

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Question 15

In the congressional debate over annexing northern Mexico, why did leading U.S. senator, John C. Calhoun, oppose annexation?

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Question 16

Describe how the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing white racial frame are observed in the racial framing of Asian immigrants as opposed to Mexican Americans.

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Question 17

Describe the shifting, unstable, and fluctuating positions of racialized groups on the white-to-black racist continuum.

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Question 18

How do whites use intermediate placement and status to protect the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing white racial frame?

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Question 19

Describe how model-minority stereotyping is a part of the contemporary white racial frame.

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Question 20

In some geographical areas with substantial numbers of Latino and Asian immigrants, such as Texas and California, the Latino and Asian American communities are much larger, and play a more significant role in interracial relations than elsewhere. What is life like in such places for Latino Americans and Asian Americans?

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Quiz 8: Systemic Racism: Other Americans of Color