How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
answering a question in class

engaging in a debate

giving a speech

playing a basketball game
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
anti-White

homophobic

sexist

anti-Black
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?
Self-interest

Anger

History

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
non-racism

antiracism

colorblindness with regard to race

neutrality in regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except
intelligent

activists

Christians

part of the Nation of Islam
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
tactics

ideas

people

discrimination
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?
Racist policy

Systemic racism

Racist discrimination

Structural racism
9 Racist ideas...
are not permanent and can shift with work

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

[All of these statements are true.]
10 In the 1980s and 1990s, Kendi's parents believed all the following except
Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?
Assimilation

Antiracism

Separation

Segregation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Bush

Reagan

Clinton

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
W.E.B. Du Bois

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
a person of color

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a member of the global South

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power

criticize the slave trade

popularize racist ideas
16 _______ came first, not race.
Culture

Ethnicity

Policy

Biology
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She was rude to his parents

She told him he was not smart enough
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"racism"

"prejudice"

"discrimination"

"racist abuse"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except
races are biologically different in their makeup

"inferior" races should be treated differently

there is a racial hierarchy

the races are all different but equal in those differences
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would
go extinct

be enslaved

assimilate

[All of these answers apply.]
21 According to the mapping of the human genome, what percentage of difference is there between people on a genetic level?
0.5

2

10

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Gambia

Angola

Ghana

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the curse of Ham

the formation of the American colonies

the slave trade

the Civil War
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They believed all Africans were the same

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Haiti

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Brazil

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