Quiz Score for this attempt: 20 out of 20

Score for this attempt: 20 out of 20

Submitted Jan 23 at 10:33pm

This attempt took 124 minutes.

 

Question 1

4 / 4 pts

Do white affluent neighborhoods have higher rates of drug dealing than Black neighborhoods?

  

A) Yes, Michelle Alexander describes this in her book, The New Jim Crow (2010).

 

  

B) Yes, this is true, but communities of color are criminalized more, and because these neighborhoods are surveilled more, they are more likely to get punished.

 

  

C) No, it's common knowledge that there drug dealing is far more widespread in Black communities than white ones.

 

  

D) We actually can't tell because there is no data to support this.

 

  

E) Both A and B

 

Correct!

 

Question 2

4 / 4 pts

Is there systemic racism in the U.S. health care system towards African Americans?

  

A) No, the American medical system is grounded in science, and science is objective and race-neutral.

 

  

B) No, doctors go through rigorous medical training that would not allow for this.

 

  

C) Yes, studies across the nation show that Black women have higher mortality rates while giving birth, and Black children have higher infant mortality rates.

 

  

D) Yes, studies show that from complications from childbirth, “Black patients are more than twice as likely to die than White patients."

 

  

E) Both C and D

 

Correct!

 

Question 3

4 / 4 pts

Is there credible evidence to show that Black children and other children of color are treated differently by teachers compared to white children?

  

A) No, and any evidence that would suggest that is racially biased.

 

  

B) Yes, dozens of studies have found that teachers typically hold more negative attitudes about Black children’s personality traits, ability, language, behavior, and potential than they do about White children, and that most Black students have fewer favorable interactions with their teachers than White students.

 

  

C) Yes, studies have found that children of color are more likely to be treated differently in the classroom—neither pushed academically nor praised as much as White students—and more often punished for offenses that White students commit without consequence; they are also more likely to be suspended from school than Whites who commit the same infractions.

 

  

D) Both B and C

 

Correct!

  

E) None of the above

 

 

Question 4

4 / 4 pts

Approximately how long did the student strike last at San Francisco State College?

  

A) Two weeks

 

  

B) Two months

 

  

C) Five months

 

Correct, the longest student strike in U.S. history that gave birth to the first Ethnic Studies program in the U.S. and would have far-reaching impact at 200 colleges and universities across the country.

  

D) Six months

 

  

E) One year

 

 

Question 5

4 / 4 pts

Brian Baker discusses othering and the stereotypes of Native people in his chapter “Imaginary Indians: Invoking Invented Ideas in Popular and Public Culture” (Baker, et. al., 2011). Baker establishes that the purpose for his article is to provide an analysis related to imaginary Indians based on ideas invented by members of white American culture that functioned to set Indians apart from society as the “other.”

Which of the following is/are NOT INCLUDED among Baker’s four interrelated dimensions of imaginary Indians? 

(In other words, which of the following is/are NOT common stereotypes of Native Americans?)

  

A) Indians as children

 

  

B) Indians as responsible adults

 

  

C) Wild and dancing Indians

 

  

D) Indians as a civilized people

 

  

E) Indians as redskins and warriors (mascots)

 

  

F) Both B and D

 

Correct!  Settler colonialism has long racialized Native Americans as uncivilized and childlike and in need of the "Great (White) Father" of the U.S. government to civilize and care for the "red children" through such "benevolence" as boarding schools.

Quiz Score: 20 out of 20