Boza Test Bank Chapter 15 Global Racisms France, Brazil

Chapter 15: Thinking Globally: Race and Racisms in France, South Africa, and Brazil

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 01

1) In the opening story, journalist Eugene Robinson writes about meeting a Brazilian woman. She was born in a poor part of Brazil where slavery had once persisted. She had “jet-Black hair, flaring nostrils, high cheekbones, and brown skin.” When he asked her what it was like to be Black in Brazil, she replied:

a. “I wish I was not Black.”

b. “We are the most discriminated against.”

c. “I’m not Black. I am pardo.”

d. “I’m not Black.”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 02

2) The countries examined in this chapter each had dynamics of ________ and _________.

a. agricultural and plantation history

b. colonialism and slavery

c. color-blindness and denial

d. civil rights struggle and legal racial discrimination.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 03

3) In 1854, a Frenchman was appointed governor of Senegal, which marked the establishment of the French empire in sub-Saharan Africa. What was his name?

a. Louis Léon César Faidherbe

b. Jean Faudoas de Cérillac

c. Jean-Léon Fournier

d. Jacques de Chambly

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 04

4) When forcibly taking African lands, the French taught African children the following EXCEPT:

a. reading and writing.

b. speak French.

c. Christianity.

d. hygiene.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 05

5) Today in France, Antilleans have access to public administration jobs in France, but they have encountered:

a. a glass ceiling.

b. a lack of training.

c. deep racial hostility.

d. ethnic discrimination.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 06

6) About _________ of the 61 million people who live in France are foreign-born, and only a small percentage of these are undocumented.

a. 20%

b. 15%

c. 10%

d. 5%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 07

7) It is difficult to be sure how much racial or ethnic inequality is in France because:

a. it is famously welcoming and not racist.

b. the state cannot collect systematic data on race or ethnicity.

c. race does not matter.

d. French people voted against collecting data about racism.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 08

8) French youth who live in the suburbs have _________ relationship with the police?

a. an improving

b. nonexistent

c. an ideal

d. an authoritarian

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 09

9) The struggle for control for the Cape Colony in South Africa between the British and Afrikaners led to the:

a. Boer War.

b. Maritz Rebellion.

c. Mozambican War.

d. Dutch-British War.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 10

10) In South Africa, the “native” race label was changed to?

a. Oji

b. Dausi

c. Bantu

d. Ata dudu

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 11

11) Throughout apartheid, the coloured group was mainly viewed as people who:

a. were Indian.

b. had racial mixture in their lineage.

c. were an Indian/Black mixture.

d. were an Indian/White mixture.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 12

12) Today, coloureds in South Africa still face all the following challenges EXCEPT:

a. low levels of educational attainment.

b. high rates of unemployment.

c. poor health outcomes.

d. systemic racial violence.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 13

13) About ______ of African students and a larger percentage of colored and Indian students are enrolled in previously White schools?

a. 15%

b. 20%

c. 25%

d. 30%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 14

14) Sociologist Nadine Dolby found that the White students in South Africa were similar to Whites in the United States in that they used the phrase:

a. “Race shouldn’t matter…”

b. “Your character, not color, matters.”

c. “We are never going to be equal if we always talk about race.”

d. “I don’t want to sound racist, but…”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 15

15) Large numbers of mixed-race children in Brazil are largely the result of:

a. Government policy encouraging mesticagem.

b. Portuguese men frequently engaged in consensual and nonconsensual sexual relations with non-White women.

c. The government bringing European immigrants to help whiten Brazil.

d. Immigrants from other countries migrating to Brazil.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 16

16) Many Brazilian thinkers __________ the Whitening theory where the government posited that Brazil would be a better country the whiter it became.

a. embraced

b. rejected

c. were confused by

d. created

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 17

17) The Affirmative Action policy that three states approved reserved _______ of university admission slots for Afro-Brazilian.

a. 20%

b. 30%

c. 40%

d. 50%

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 18

18) Daniele de Araújo lived in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro in an area controlled by drug dealers. As she walked home, knowing she was pregnant she prayed that she wanted a girl. She wanted her to be healthy. Most of all, she prayed:

a. “The baby has to be pretty.”

b. “The baby has to be White.”

c. “The baby has to be pardo.”

d. “The baby has to be light-skinned.”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 19

19) In Brazil race and color is complicated, however, they would be baffled by the following U.S. events EXCEPT?

a. Charleston, SC church shooting by a White supremacist.

b. The president calling on the country to confront racial inequality.

c. The growing multiracial population.

d. Rachel Doelezal, a White woman, passing as a Black woman.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 20

20) Sociologist Chinyere Osuji interviewed twenty-five married couples in Brazil composed of one Black and one White partner to ask about the practice of whitening. The couples gave the following reasons for marrying their spouse EXCEPT:

a. their partner’s intelligence.

b. their partner’s social skills.

c. their partners physical beauty.

d. their partners skin color.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 01

1) What role does colonialism play in Brazil, South Africa, and France?

Page reference: How do Other Countries Differ from the United States in Racial Dynamics?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 02

2) What is France’s history with slavery?

Page reference: Race and Racism in France

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 03

3) Prior to 1974, what was the immigration relationship of African colonies with France?

Page reference: African Immigration to France

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 04

4) What is it like for sub-Saharan African and Tunisian immigrants in France today?

Page reference: Discrimination and Racial and Ethnic Inequality in France Today

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 05

5) What was apartheid like in South Africa?

Page reference: The Apartheid Era (1948-1994)

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 06

6) What historical event occurred on June 16, 1976 in South Africa?

Page reference: The Apartheid Era (1948-1994).

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 07

7) A discussion of inequality would be incomplete without discussing what another significant occurrence?

Page reference: The Persistence of Inequality in the Post-Apartheid Era

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 08

8) Brazilian social historian, Gilberto Freyere published his book Casa Grande e Senzala in 1933. What were some the main arguments in his book?

Page reference: Whitening Through Immigration and Intermarriage

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 09

9) Despite the assertion that Brazil is a racial democracy, what have other scholars discovered about Brazilians experiences with race?

Page reference: The Racial Democracy Myth in Brazil and Affirmative Action

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 10

10) In Brazil, how is race determined and/or measured?

Page reference: Racial Categories in Brazil Today

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 01

1) To what do South African Black professionals attribute continuing racism in post-Apartheid South Africa?

Page reference: How do Other Countries Differ from the United States in Racial Dynamics?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 02

2) What happened in October 2005 with the youth of the banlieues?

Page reference: Discrimination and Racial and Ethnic Inequality in France Today

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 03

3) After the costly British victory in the Boer War, how was apartheid established?

Page reference: The Apartheid Era (1948-1994)

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 04

4) Under apartheid, Fernwood was a government school. What happened to the school post-apartheid?

Page reference: The Persistence of Inequality in the Post-Apartheid Era

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 15 Question 05

5) What is Brazil’s relationship with race today?

Page reference: Racial Categories in Brazil Today