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CHAPTER 7

  1. What was done in boarding schools to Indian students to Anglicize them?
  2. Who was John Collier?
  3. Who was Booker T. Washington?
  4. What two things did Booker T. Washington concede in his Atlanta Compromise speech?
  5. Name three things to describe W.E.B. Du Bois.
  6. What did Mendez v. Westminster involve? What was the outcome?
  7. What are the features of Eurocentric education?
  8. According to Figure 7.1, approximately what percent of African Americans were in white southern schools in 1990?
  9. In general, why don’t white students speak up in classes on race and racism?
  10. What is cultural capital? How do students benefit from it?
  11. What is stereotype threat? How does it work?
  12. Which Asian American group has the highest income? The lowest? (Table 7.1)
  13. What is the primary reason a white or Asian qualified applicant will be rejected from a top university?

CHAPTER 8

  1. What is minstrelsy?
  2. Why can’t art be colonized?
  3. Which doll are African American students more likely to choose, a white or black one? How do you explain this?
  4. What is blepharoplasty? Whom is it most likely to be performed on?
  5. What is Norman Rockwell best known for?
  6. Why was there so much outrage over the casting of Rue and Thresh in The Hunger Games?
  7. What is “Sexy Little Geisha”? Which company promoted this?
  8. Who is the creator of Achmed the Dead Terrorist? Why is he considered racist?
  9. What do the films To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Hawk Down, Three Kings, The Matrix, and Avatar all have in common?
  10. Describe the work of MacArthur Genius Award winner Kara Walker.
  11. What is a corrido? Why is it considered antiracist?
  12. What is cultural appropriation? How does the kaffiyeh become culturally appropriated?