How to Be an Antiracist Quizzes

How to Be an Antiracist Quiz 1

1 Kendi's introduction features him

playing a basketball game

answering a question in class

giving a speech

engaging in a debate
2 Kendi's speech embarrasses him now because it is

sexist

anti-Black

homophobic

anti-White
3 What does Kendi say is the "heartbeat" of racism?

Anger

History

Denial

Self-interest
4 Kendi rejects all the following except:

colorblindness with regard to race

non-racism

neutrality in regard to race

antiracism
5 Which of the following statements is true?

Black people cannot be racist

One can be antiracist one minute and racist another

It is better to work on changing people than policies

Racism and antiracism are fixed categories
6 Kendi describes his parents as all of the following except

Christians

part of the Nation of Islam

activists

intelligent
7 Racism marries racist policies with racist ____

ideas

people

discrimination

tactics
8 Kendi prefers which of the following terms?

Systemic racism

Structural racism

Racist discrimination

Racist policy
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

uplifting the Black race was possible

Black people could never climb the ladder because of racism

Black-on-Black crime was a major problem

Black people who were poor did not work hard enough to climb the ladder
11 Which of the following is not one of the different strategies to deal with race?

Segregation

Separation

Antiracism

Assimilation
12 Which president officially began the War on Drugs?

Bush

Reagan

Clinton

Nixon
13 Who coined the term "double consciousness"?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey
14 Kendi identifies himself as all the following except

a person of color

an ally to all groups marginalized by their identities

a member of the global South

not belonging to a specific race because race is a construct
15 Gomes de Zurara was the first to

defend Africans from enslavers

popularize racist ideas

criticize the slave trade

implement racist power
16 _______ came first, not race.

Culture

Biology

Policy

Ethnicity
17 Why did Kendi get angry with his teacher?

She refused to implement curriculum that the students of color wanted

She told him he was not smart enough

She was rude to his parents

She was ignoring the kids of color and favoring the White kids
18 Instead of the term "microaggression," Kendi prefers

"prejudice"

"racism"

"racist abuse"

"discrimination"
19 Biological racism suggests all the following except

races are biologically different in their makeup

the races are all different but equal in those differences

"inferior" races should be treated differently

there is a racial hierarchy
20 "Weaker" races, according to Darwinism, would

assimilate

be enslaved

go extinct

[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?

0.1

2

10

0.5
22 Kwame was from

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Angola
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 are just as bad as white enslavers

They did not believe they were selling their own people

They actively sold their own people

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

Jamaica

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Brazil

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