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Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness Chapter 2 Assessment

Note: Please go to www.danteking.com, to complete the chapter assessment which includes the questions below. Only answer the questions that you feel compelled to answer.

Considering the framing provided in Chapters One and Two:

1.What are your thoughts about the framing of Whiteness as it is highlighted in this culture?
2.What roles did pro-Whiteness and anti-Blackness play in shaping the legal, moral, and cultural practices in the development of Anglo-White America?
3.In your own words, what is your understanding of pro-Whiteness? How is it different from anti-Blackness?
4.How are anti-Blackness and pro-Whiteness aligned?
5.Why is it dangerous to minimize the effects of the harm that these historical events caused to both Black and Indigenous communities, in an attempt to untether this history from today's society?
6.How is the legal system implicated in shaping favorable cultural and institutional conditions for American Whites and unfavorable cultural and institutional conditions for American Black people?