How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
answering a question in class

engaging in a debate

playing a basketball game

giving a speech
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
anti-White

anti-Black

homophobic

sexist
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?
History

Anger

Denial

Self-interest
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race

antiracism

non-racism
5 Which of the following statements is true?
One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
Christians

part of the Nation of Islam

activists

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

ideas

discrimination

people
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Racist policy

Structural racism

Racist discrimination

Systemic racism
9 Racist ideas...
are not permanent and can shift with work

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

[All of these statements are true.]
10 In the 1980s and 1990s, Kendi's parents believed all the following except
Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder

uplifting the Black race was possible
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?
Separation

Antiracism

Segregation

Assimilation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Clinton

Bush

Nixon

Reagan
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a person of color
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
implement racist power

popularize racist ideas

defend Africans from enslavers

criticize the slave trade
16 _______ came first, not race.
Ethnicity

Biology

Culture

Policy
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She was rude to his parents

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She told him he was not smart enough
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"discrimination"

"prejudice"

"racist abuse"

"racism"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

the races are all different but equal in those differences

there is a racial hierarchy
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would
assimilate

go extinct

be enslaved

[All of these answers apply.]
21 According to the mapping of the human genome, what percentage of difference is there between people on a genetic level?
0.1

0.5

2

10
22 Kwame was from
Ghana

Gabon

Gambia

Angola
23 Ethnic racism began with
the formation of the American colonies

the curse of Ham

the slave trade

the Civil War
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Dominican Republic

Brazil

Haiti

Jamaica

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