Race 1

Question 1

Multiracial individuals could self-identify as multiracial beginning with which census?

Answer 1

2000

Question 2

There was a strong motive around “blood” and race in the 40s and 50s. How does this relate to mixed-race couples.

Answer 2

Where one drop of black blood made you black. Blood essentialized race. Only men could transfer their “blood” through their semen to women, thus white male, black female sex was “safe.” (Romano 2001)

Question 3

When did the black rapist myth begin and where? What did it coincide with? Slavery to Jim Crow was a movement from what to what?

Answer 3

The 19th century in the South and coincided with the end of slavery. Slavery to Jim Crow was a movement from paternalism to criminalization. (Romano 2001)

Question 4

What are Fredrickson’s (2002) two components of racism?

Answer 4

Difference and power. It originates from a mindset that regards “them” as different from “us” in ways that are permanent and unbridgeable.

Question 5

Those who have studied the ancient world find what about the conception of race?

Answer 5

That no concept truly equivalent to that of “race” can be detected in the thought of the Greeks, Romans, and early Christians. (Fredrickson 2002)