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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 6 Assessment

Chapter 6 Review Questions

(Note: Please go to www.danteking.com, to complete the chapter assessment and evaluation for the following questions.)

Considering what was outlined in this last chapter, ask yourselves the following questions:
1.What did White females and males learn about the value of Whiteness?
2.How did these laws shape White identity for White males? White females?
3.What did Black females learn about what it meant to be White and female? White and male? Black and male? Black and female?
4.What did Black males learn about what it meant to be White and male? White and female? Black and female? Black and male?
5.How did these laws shape Black identity?
6.How did these laws create and reinforce pro-White and anti-Black systems (legal, social, etc.) all over North America but particularly in the United States?
7.What happens when we minimize what was a large-scale violation? What does that do for the perpetrators? What does it do to the victims?
8.How do we cope when we fail to draw a direct line between history and the present?
9.How is it that most White people can get away with avoiding culpability, until now?
10.Why do we avoid painful topics and who benefits when we do? Who suffers? (This includes large scale sexual abuse.)
11.How has White people's creation and control of the legal system allowed them to quite literally get away with murder?
12.How can Black people escape the notion of "criminality" when it was meant only to address their purported misdeeds and exclude everyone else's?
13.Who are the real criminals?
14.Why is it dangerous to minimize the impacts of yesterday's traumas and what does that do to how we live today?
15.How does the legal system favor Whites?
16.How does the legal system disfavor Black people?