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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 4 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 the North American continent generally, but specifically in the United States?
7.
What gets lost when we do not carefully scrutinize every bit of our national history?
8.
How is it we have separated past violence from current violence? And why is it?
9.
How is the role of anti-Blackness different from that of White supremacy/power/superiority?
10.
How does White people's creation and control over the law prevent them from ever being held to account?
11.
How can Black people escape the notion of "criminality" when the construct was built specifically to encapsulate them and only them?
12.
Who are the real criminals?
13.
Why is it dangerous to minimize the horror of past events? Who does this minimization impact worst? Who benefits?
14.
How is the law constructed to benefit Whites? How is it constructed to hurt Black people?