Ch14 Exam Prep Racial Justice In The United States Today

Chapter 14: Racial Justice in the United States Today

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 01

1) On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, legal scholar Michelle Alexander reflected on Dr. King and recalled that five years after the march, King was doing the following EXCEPT:

a. speaking out against the Vietnam War.

b. condemning America’s militarism and imperialism.

c. stating that our nation was “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.”

d. renewing his commitment to peaceful sit-ins.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 02

2) The creation of a society devoid of racial oppression is called:

a. racial justice.

b. racial utopia.

c. racial peace.

d. racial community.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 03

3) Eric Yamamoto’s first step towards racial justice is:

a. Realization.

b. Recognition.

c. Respect.

d. Ratification.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 04

4) An example Yamamoto gives of the first step includes the following EXCEPT:

a. Thinking about how Native Americans feel about genocide.

b. Thinking about how African Americans feel about slavery.

c. Thinking about how pet owners feel about rescue animals.

d. Thinking about how Japanese American feel about internment.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 05

5) Eric Yamamoto’s second step towards racial justice is:

a. Respectability.

b. Reliability.

c. Renumeration.

d. Responsibility.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 06

6) Yamamoto’s provides questions one should consider asking about slavery to identify the second step EXCEPT:

a. Are individual slaveowners responsible?

b. Are their descendants responsible?

c. Are Africans responsible?

d. Are the financial institutions that supported slavery responsible?

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 07

7) Eric Yamamoto’s third step towards racial justice is:

a. Rebuilding.

b. Regeneration.

c. Reconstruction.

d. Renovation.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 08

8) Yamamoto explains that the third step requires action such as:

a. formally apologizing.

b. ending gifts to children of Native and Indigenous People.

c. protesting affirmative action.

d. posting to social media for increased viewership of the harmful effects of racial oppression.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 09

9) Eric Yamamoto’s fourth step towards racial justice is:

a. Renumeration.

b. Reparations.

c. Reimbursement.

d. Repayment.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 10

10) Yamamoto provides which example of the fourth step?

a. The United Negro College Fund creates a scholarship for American Born Descendants of Slaves.

b. Los Angeles creates a statue commemorating Mendez v. Westminster.

c. Congress paid $20,000 to each victim of the Japanese American Internment Camps.

d. A plaque is made honoring the Alcatraz Takeover by Native Americans.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 11

11) Government-sanctioned freedoms and privileges designed to promote equal opportunity is called:

a. civil rights.

b. human rights.

c. property rights.

d. equal rights.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 12

12) In 2013, the Supreme Court stripped the Voting Rights Act of critical constitutional protections. Who wrote the dissent?

a. Elena Kagan

b. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

c. Sonia Sotomayor

d. Stephen Breyer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 13

13) Which Supreme Court decision showed that simply showing that Africans Americans get longer sentences than Whites for similar offenses is not enough to prove that African Americans’ civil rights have been violated?

a. Washington v. Davis

b. Palmer v. Thomas

c. McClesky v. Kemp

d. Furman v. Georgia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 14

14) The trouble with the human rights framework is that it is not part of:

a. U.S. culture.

b. U.S. values.

c. U.S. traditions.

d. U.S. law.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 15

15) Recall that in the early 2000s, _______ began to aggressively target Black and Latino homeowners and potential buyers, offering subprime loans?

a. predatory lenders

b. predatory real estate agents

c. predatory mortgage companies

d. predatory home buyers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 16

16) There were three undocumented youth advocating for the DREAM Act, which of the following was not one of the students?

a. Mohammad Abdulahi

b. Yahaira Carrillo

c. Lily Chan

d. Lizbeth Mateo

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 17

17) The ability to understand and share the feelings of others is called:

a. compassion.

b. affinity.

c. intuition.

d. empathy.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 18

18) Institutionalized racism is a system of social control, yet this system interlocks with all EXCEPT:

a. other systems of social control.

b. powerful personal opinions.

c. other systems of social domination.

d. racial injustice.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 19

19) The three interlocking systems of oppression include the following EXCEPT.

a. White privilege

b. patriarchy

c. capitalism

d. White supremacy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 20

20) The author of this book considers all of the following except:

a. Perhaps a world without racist ideologies would inherently be a more equal world.

b. Perhaps the devaluation of Black lives is what makes it possible for the United States to have the largest prison system in the world.

c. Perhaps the devaluation of Arab lives is what made the wars in Iraqi and Afghanistan possible.

d. Perhaps racism in an inevitable reality because inequality will always exist.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 01

1) What is racial justice?

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 02

2) Economist William Darity (2008) argues that three types of injustices have occurred that justify reparations. What are they?

Page reference: Recognition, Responsibility, Reconstruction, and Reparations

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 03

3) What do Civil Rights include?

Page reference: Civil Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 04

4) Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says:

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 05

5) Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says:

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 06

6) Article 12 from the International Covenant of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights says:

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 07

7) What happened to the men who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery?

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 08

8) What happened to the police officers in Breonna Taylor’s case?

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 09

9) What happened to the police officer who killed George Floyd?

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 10

10) For all the DREAMERS efforts, what were they successfully able to do?

Page reference: Struggles for Racial Justice

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 01

1) What does racial justice look like for different people?

Page reference: Introduction

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 02

2) According to Dr. Darity (2008) what would reparations look like?

Page reference: Reparations

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 03

3) What was the Supreme Court’s justification for gutting the Voting Rights Act?

Page reference: Civil Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 04

4) What is a human rights framework?

Page reference: Human Rights

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 14 Question 05

5) Is it possible for us to have a society free of racism?

Page reference: Racism and Capitalism