Chapter 6 Review Questions

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Considering what was outlined in this last chapter, ask yourselves the following questions:

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1. What did White females and males learn about the value of Whiteness?

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2. How did these laws shape White identity for White males? White females?

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3. What did Black females learn about what it meant to be White and female? White and male? Black and male? Black and female?

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4. What did Black males learn about what it meant to be White and male? White and female? Black and female? Black and male?

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5. How did these laws shape Black identity?

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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?

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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?

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8. How do we cope when we fail to draw a direct line between history and the present?

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9. How is it that most White people can get away with avoiding culpability, until now?

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10. Why do we avoid painful topics and who benefits when we do? Who suffers? (This includes large scale sexual abuse.)

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11. How has White people's creation and control of the legal system allowed them to quite literally get away with murder?

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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?

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13. Who are the real criminals?

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14. Why is it dangerous to minimize the impacts of yesterday's traumas and what does that do to how we live today?

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15. How does the legal system favor Whites?

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16. How does the legal system disfavor Black people?

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