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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 7 Assessment

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Considering what you have learned thus far, contemplate the following:
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.What were some of the ways White women responded to the laws directed against them, controlling their bodies and sexuality? Would this spur any allyship? Why or why not?
7.How did these laws create and reinforce pro-White and anti-Black sentiments?
8.What should we do about past offenses? Disregard them? Highlight them?
9.How did America's founding hundreds of years ago lead it to be the country it is today? How is it in reality? How is it marketed to be, both internally (domestically) and externally (to foreign states)?
10.How is it that most White people have never been forced to admit their history? What does this omission mean for them? For Black Americans?
11.What are the reasons why most Americans refuse to learn? What is it about anti-Blackness that is so terrifying to study?
12.How does White people's control over the law prevent a proper accounting of their actions?
13.How can Black people escape "criminality" when it was designed to imprison them physically and emotionally?
14.Who are the real criminals?
15.Why is it dangerous to minimize wrongdoing? Particularly regarding the communities who suffered most from it.
16.In what ways were laws structured in favor of Whites and against Black people?