Part 1: How to Be an Antiracist

Question 1

When did people like Kendi's father start taking pride in darkness?

Accepted Answer

Black Power Movement

Question 2

What does Kendi's process reveal?

Accepted Answer

Americans learn the social codes racism over time.

Question 3

Why does Kendi prefer the term racial abuse over microaggressions?

Accepted Answer

Micro wrongly implies that constant abuse is acceptable and not a big deal.

Question 4

Who gets caught between segregationism and assimilation according to Kendi?

Accepted Answer

White People

Question 5

Behavioral racism is about individual actions and traits

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Which is a racial stereotype according to Kendi?

Accepted Answer

Overwhelmingly violent or dangerous

Question 7

What discouraged Kendi from trying in school?

Accepted Answer

Racism

Question 8

Why was Kendi scared at his new school?

Accepted Answer

Afraid of the racist ideas in his head.

Question 9

How did Kendi’s third grade teacher treat students with different color?

Accepted Answer

Punished and ignored her black students

Question 10

Why did Kendi stage a protest?

Accepted Answer

Teacher ignoring student

Question 11

Why did Kendi wear colored contacts?

Accepted Answer

To look less black

Question 12

What did Kendi blame his failures on?

Accepted Answer

His skin color

Question 13

Is assimilation racist?

Accepted Answer

Yes

Question 14

Kendi’s high school experiences did not fit stereotypes about Black teenagers.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Kendi believes that whether someone is being racist or antiracist depends on what they are saying, doing,

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Why has American society controlled, lynched, segregated, and incarcerated Black people over the centuries?

Accepted Answer

Association between Blackness and violence

Question 17

What is Kendis ultimate solution?

Accepted Answer

Antiracism

Question 18

How does Kendi define Racism?

Accepted Answer

Racism is a set of racist policies, justified by racist ideas, that produce

Question 19

What does Kendi believe is the last step in achieving racial equity?

Accepted Answer

Getting rid of Racial categories

Question 20

Who brings the greatest obstacle to racial equity?

Accepted Answer

Race-neutral people because they argue against all discrimination.

Question 21

How does Kendi define biological racism?

Accepted Answer

ideas people express

Question 22

What did Kendi’s parents blame racial inequality on?

Accepted Answer

Black people's laziness and ghetto culture

Question 23

Culture is about shared traditions

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

True or false: Racists promote or maintain equity.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 25

What did Kendi yell at Kwame that negatively affects native-born and immigrant communities?

Accepted Answer

Refugee

Question 26

What culture did Kendi look down on?

Accepted Answer

Black Southern Culture

Question 27

What contest did Kendi win with his speech, full of classic behavioral racist ideas?

Accepted Answer

MLK oratorical contest.

Question 28

Why did the suburban school Kendi visited only have one Black teacher?

Accepted Answer

The school hadn’t hired any most likely because they can't afford to.

Question 29

What sport did Kendi play?

Accepted Answer

Basketball

Question 30

What college did Kendi attend?

Accepted Answer

Florida A&M University

Part 1: How to Be an Antiracist

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Part 1: How to Be an Antiracist

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