Question 1

Findings in a report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) reveal:

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A)  that while almost all twelfth-grade students in the U.S. take a civics course, most could not pass a rudimentary civics test at a "proficient" level. 
B)  that most Americans do not know the most basic facts about the U.S. political system. 
C)  that most Americans do not understand why knowing basic facts about the U.S. political system really matters. 
D)  All the above

Question 2

Describe how since the seventeenth century, white racial framing has justified anti-black oppression and has had a very strong emotional character.

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Question 3

Describe the significance of the 1968 Kerner Commission Report.

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Question 4

In Europe and the Americas, a commonplace European or European American explanation for the exploitation and enslavement of other groups, especially people of African descent, drew on an old myth based on the biblical story of Noah and his sons. Describe this myth.

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Question 5

In the first century and a half, 40 percent of all those enslaved, as well as the many prominent whites who were speaking out on issues of their own liberty, were located in ______________.

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A)  Kentucky. 
B)  North Carolina. 
C)  Tennessee. 
D)  Virginia. 
E)  West Virginia.

Question 6

Describe the impact of nineteenth century French diplomat and prominent racist thinker, Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, on the U.S. and Nazi Germany.

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Question 7

William Graham Sumner is considered a "founding father" of U.S. sociology. What does this tell us about how capitalism and its elites have shaped the dominant assumptions underlying sociology in North America and Europe?

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Question 8

The white racial frame has been elaborated and changed somewhat over time. Describe its variations as it has operated over time to rationalize, sustain, and script white power and white privilege.

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Question 9

By the 1950s, and accelerating in the 1960s, the moderately liberal fraction of the white elite was pressing for a softening of blatantly racist prejudices and for new group-based remedies. Explain this change of heart in terms of Derrick Bell's theory of "interest convergence."

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Question 10

Discuss how most white scientists of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while presenting themselves as objective observers, tried to marshal evidence for human differences that the European imperialists' perspective had already decided were important to highlight.

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Question 11

In the United States, distinguished lawyers, judges, and political leaders promoted scientific racism and its white-supremacist assumptions. In the first half of the nineteenth century whites with an economic interest in slavery dominated the U.S. political and legal system. Explain how this influence was conspicuous in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford (1857) decision.

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Question 12

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "Significantly, of the three large-scale systems of social oppression - racism, sexism, and classism - only racism involves the dominant group having a deeply rooted and often obsessively emotional fear of the subordinated group." Explain.

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Question 13

In _________, the colony of Virginia established the first explicit law against interracial sex, and in _________ a law against interracial marriage was enforced by banishment.

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A)  1531; 1560 
B)  1662; 1691 
C)  1770; 1799 
D)  1803; 1833

Question 14

In a 1550 debate, Spanish theologian __________ argued that it was lawful to enslave African populations because of their heathen natures, which obligated them to serve those with the superior culture (the Spanish).

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A)  Antonio del Corro 
B)  Petrus Martinez de Osma 
C)  Casiodoro de Reina 
D)  Gaines de Sepulveda 
E)  Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo

Question 15

In his 1830 lectures, the leading German philosopher G. W.F. Hegel spoke about the "Negro" as "natural man in his wild and untamed nature" and argued that there is "nothing remotely humanized in the Negro's character."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Describe how powerful whites, including media commentators and officials, have downplayed persisting white racism and accented the image of a society where equality of opportunity and colorblindness are supposedly the reality.

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Question 17

Who was Madison Grant and what did he argue about new immigrant groups from southern and eastern Europe?

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Question 18

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "[T]he anti-black framing was not "out there," but rather in the white mind (brain), and riddled with racialized emotions." Explain.

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Question 19

Between 1878 and 1923, a series of federal court cases decided that the following Americans were not white and thus were ineligible for citizenship:

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A)  Chinese Americans. 
B)  native Hawai'ians. 
C)  half-Asian Americans. 
D)  Burmese Americans. 
E)  All the above

Question 20

Explain how Germany's Adolf Hitler was influenced by U.S. Jim Crow patterns.

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Exam 3: The White Racial Frame- a Social Force