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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 8 Assessment
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Considering what you have just read, answer 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.
In what ways were the parameters of Whiteness and anti-Blackness vastly expanded to widen the realities and impacts of oppression between White/White-identified and Black people?
7.
How does the law reinforce pro-White and anti-Black outcomes?
8.
What happens when we dismiss real injuries, over and over again?
9.
How do we not see the origins and extensions of anti-Blackness and White supremacy? Furthermore, why do we not?
10.
What happens when we allow perpetrators to go on perpetrating without consequence for hundreds of years?
11.
How is the role of anti-Blackness different from that of White supremacy/power/superiority?
12.
How does White people's control of the legal system privilege them?
13.
How can Black people escape "criminality" when it is meant to continue imprisoning them?
14.
Who are the real criminals?
15.
Why is it dangerous to minimize actual harm? What does that minimization enable in the future?
16.
How is the legal system structured to advance Whites and hinder Black people?