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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 5 Assessment
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Considering the socio-cultural context at hand:
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 legal, social, political, and cultural orientations in all of the North American continent, but particularly in the United States?
7.
Who benefits when we do not adequately scrutinize our past? Who gets further wounded?
8.
How and why have we disconnected past violence against Black persons from current violence aimed at Black persons?
9.
How is the role of anti-Blackness different from that of White supremacy/power/superiority?
10.
How does White people's creation of and control over the legal system enable their terrorism?
11.
How can Black people escape the idea of "criminality" when it was conjured up just for them?
12.
Who are the real criminals? Are they free? If so, why?
13.
Why is it dangerous to minimize the harm Black and Indigenous persons have suffered at the hands of Whites?
14.
How is the legal system built to favor Whites, no matter the heinousness of their offenses?
15.
How is the legal system built to disfavor Black persons, no matter the degree of innocence and victimization?