How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him
engaging in a debate

playing a basketball game

answering a question in class

giving a speech
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is
anti-White

anti-Black

sexist

homophobic
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?
History

Anger

Self-interest

Denial
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:
antiracism

non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

colorblindness with regard to race
5 Which of the following statements is true?
Racism and antiracism are fixed categories

Black people cannot be racist

It is better to work on changing people than policies

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

intelligent

part of the Nation of Islam

activists
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____
discrimination

tactics

people

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

Structural racism

Racist discrimination

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

suggest that there is a hierarchy of race

claim that there are intrinsic characteristics of races

[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

uplifting the Black race was possible

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

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

Antiracism

Separation

Assimilation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?
Reagan

Nixon

Clinton

Bush
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?
Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except
a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct

a person of color

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to
criticize the slave trade

popularize racist ideas

defend Africans from enslavers

implement racist power
16 _______ came first, not race.
Culture

Biology

Ethnicity

Policy
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?
She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids

She told him he was not smart enough

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She was rude to his parents
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers
"prejudice"

"racism"

"discrimination"

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

there is a racial hierarchy

"inferior" races should be treated differently

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

go extinct

be enslaved

[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

10

2

0.1
22 Kwame was from
Angola

Gambia

Ghana

Gabon
23 Ethnic racism began with
the formation of the American colonies

the Civil War

the curse of Ham

the slave trade
24 Which of the following is true about African chiefs?
They did not believe they were selling their own people

They actively sold their own people

They are just as bad as white enslavers

They believed all Africans were the same
25 Kendi's friend Gil was from
Jamaica

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Haiti

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