Sociology 4302 Flashcards
1
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Slavery in what would later become the U.S. began at _____ in Virginia
1. Alexandria
2. Jamestown
3. Lynchburg
4. Richmond
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Jamestown
2
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Slavery did exist in Africa prior to the crossing of the Atlantic; however, it was based primarily on ______ and not on race
1. Ethnicity
2. Crafts and skills
3. Labor union membership
4. Generational cohort
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Ethnicity
3
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Within the context of inter-ethnic tension in Africa prior to crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, slave traders were primarily ______
1. Priests and religious leaders
2. Mediterranean merchants
3. Warriors and chiefs
4. Vagabond
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Warriors and chiefs
4
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The oldest city in what later to be knows as the U.S. is ______
1. Norfolk, Virginia
2. Hampton, Virginia
3. St. Petersburg, Florida
4. St. Augustine, Florida
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St. Augustine, Florida
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Runaway slaves could attain freedom by crossing the St. Mary’s River and arrivign in St. Augustine, Florida if they did each of the following except _______
1. Convert to Catholicism
2. Pledge loyalty to the Spanish Crown
3. Become wage earning indentured servants
4. Serve in the colonial militia
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Become wage earning indentured servants
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The first all-black settlement in what would later be known as the United States is _____
1. Jerrerson Perrish
2. Fort Dimanche
3. San Dominque
4. Fort Mose
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Fort Mose
7
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According to the documentary entitled “Many Rivers to Cross” the location of Washington D.D. was chosen as the capital of the U.S. for what reason?
1. To appease Southern slave owners
2. It has a climate conducive for both agriculture and industry
3. Native Americans donated in exchange for sovereignty in the rest of Maryland
4. To appease the Union Army
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To appease Southern slave owners
8
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According to Fionnghuala Sweeney’s article entitled “The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial” the effects of modernity include each of the following except _______
1. Globalization
2. Imperialism
3. Religiosity
4. Colonialism
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Religiosity
9
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The four themes of existentialism include each of the following except ______
1. The Divine
2. The collect
3. Truth
4. Being
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The collect
10
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According to the article entitled “What is Africana Critical Theory or Black Existential Philosophy?” By Magnus O. Bassesy, the liberation of African Americans entails _____
1. An armed rebellion against all levels of government until power is seized by Black aristocracy
2. Legislative changes for civil rights, desegragation in housing, and suffrage
3. A complete destruction of the old order and replace it with new political and economic realities that would enable Blacks and Whites to share power equally
4. Repatration to Continental Africa
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A complete destruction of the old order and replace it with new political and economic realities that would enable Blacks and Whites to share power equally
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Existentialism argues that individuals develop by ______
1. Exercising their own free will
2. Interacting with other human beings
3. Developing sensorimotor skills
4. Acquiring postconvential morality
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Exercising their own free will
12
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According to the Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, the chief difficulity of the education of the Negro is that it ______
1. It has been largely imitation resulting in the enslavement of the mind
2. Lacks sufficient funding from local and state taxes
3. It fails to propely assess students that have diversity of learning styles
4. Teachers tend to set unrealistically high expectations for such students
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It has been largely imitation resulting in the enslavement of the mind
13
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The _____ has seen significant African inmigration to the USA, something not witnessed since the ending of the slave trade, during which period, however, the USA remained relatively attratrive to black Caribbeans
1. Beginning of the 19th century
2. End of the 19th century
3. Beginning of the 20th century
4. End of the 20th century
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End of the 20th century
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According the Fionnghuala Sweeney’s article entitled “The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial”, the emergency of the Native American literary voice has further complicated US historiography by ______
1. Questioning its embedded positivism and the desirability of the liberal humanist subject position
2. Questioning its embedded determinism and the desirability of neo-conservatism
3. Arguing against globalization as negligent of domestic legislation
4. Arguing against an emphasis on a domestic agenda as negligent of foreign policy in an increasing global society
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Questioning its embedded positivism and the desirability of the liberal humanist subject position
15
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The presence of the ______ empire in what is now the Southwest and Florida, both of which predate the early Puritan and Southern colonies are rooted in a very different imperial relationship to a different colonial power
1. French
2. Persian
3. Portuguese
4. Spanish
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Spanish
16
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According to ____, African Americans were treated like numbers with no meaning within the American experience
1. Medgar Evers
2. Malcolm X
3. Martin Luther King Jr.
4. Julia Foote
A
Malcolm X
17
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Malcom X, saw Black oppresion in the United States as linked to Black oppression in ________
1. Continental Africa
2. The African Diaspora
3. Africa and to the oppression of all the colored people in the world
4. Islam nations
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Africa and to the oppression of all the colored people in the world
18
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The world’s first Black republic is _____
1. Brazil
2. Haiti
3. Belize
4. Ghana
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Haiti
19
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Both the ____ and the ____ preceded the British in colonizing the Western Hemisphere
1. Germans; French
2. Greeks; Romans
3. Spanish; Portuguese
4. Bosnians; Serbians
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Spanish; Portuguese
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According to the The Book of Continental Philosophy by Lewis R. Gordan, Black existential thought focuses on each of the following except ________
1. What it means to be human
2. The politics of hope
3. The meaning of freedom
4. The degradation of reason in the modern world
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The politics of hope
21
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The term nihilism described as a particular crisis in modernity such that the modern world had lost integrity was originally coined by _______
1. Frederick Nietzsche
2. C. Wright Mills
3. Vilfredo Pareto
4. Conrel West
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Frederick Nietzsche
22
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The general attitude of denial or negation of meaning best describes _______
1. Altruism
2. Benevolence
3. Existentialism
4. Nihilism
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Nihilism
23
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According to Donald Crosby, _____ denies the sense of moral obligation
1. Epistemological nihilism
2. Moral nihilism
3. Cosmic nihilism
4. Existential nihilism
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Moral nihilism
24
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According to Donald Crosby, _____ sees nature as indifferent to fundamental concerns
1. Cosmic nihilism
2. Existential nihilism
3. Epistemological nihilism
4. Moral nihilism
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Cosmic nihilism
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According to Donald Crosby, _____ negates the meaning of life
1. Moral nihilism
2. Epistemological nihilism
3. Existential nihilism
4. Cosmic nihilism
Existential nihilism
26
According to Orlando Patterson, _____ describes the condition of people not accepted ad fully human by wider society
1. Physical death
2. Mental slavery
3. Ontological blackness
4. Social death
Social death
27
The Black nihilistic perspective deals with choosing between _____ and ____
1. Mental slavery; ontological blackness
2. Prolonged social death; physical death
3. Ubiquity; freedom
4. Distinction; ubiquity
Prolonged social death; physical death
28
Cornel West uses the expression ______ to describe the profound sense of psychological despair that is widespread in Black America
1. Mental slavery
2. Contusion
3. Nihilistic threat
4. Information overload
Nihilistic threat
29
According to Calvin Warren, African Americans are a faithful voting block
1. To contend with a painful history of exclusion
2. To contend with a history of disenfranchisement
3. As an act of historical commemoration and obligation
4. Each of these
Each of these
30
According to Cornel West, what is the problem with the loss of hope?
1. Without hope there would be no order out of chaos
2. Without hope then humanity ceases to adapt to change
3. Without hope there can be no struggle
4. Without hope there can be no future
Without hope there can be no future
31
According to Cornel West, what is the problem with the ansence of meaning?
1. Without meaning there can be no struggle
2. Without meaning there would be no order out of chaos
3. Without meaning there can be bo future
4. Without meaning there can be no struggle
Without meaning there can be no struggle
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From the Black nihilistic perspective, the convict leasing system in the U.S. undermines the ______
1. Thirteenth Amendment
2. Fifteenth Amendment
3. Nineteenth Amendment
4. Twenty-fourth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
33
The *Shelby v. Holder* (2013) decision has directly impacted the ______
1. Second Amendment
2. Fifteenth Amendment
3. Thirteenth Amendment
4. Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
34
According to Cornel West, when discussing the plight of African Americans, the structural camp emphasizes _____ as the cause for many blacks to remain at the bottom of the social ladder
1. Lack of hard work
2. Self-indulgence in instant gratification
3. Making poor decisions
4. Job and residential discrimination
Job and residential discrimination
35
According to Cornel West, when discussing the plight of African Americans, the behavioral camp emphasizes _____ as the cause for many blacks to remain at the bottom of the social ladder
1. Poor education
2. Inedequate health care
3. Waning of the Protestant ethic
4. Skewed unemployment rates
Waning of the Protestant ethic
36
According to Calvin Warren, what is the purpose of the politics of hope?
1. To encourage political activism
2. To resolve long-term conflict
3. To reproduce the very condition of possibility
4. To promote societal unity
To reproduce the very condition of possibility
37
According to Calvin Warren, the ______ refers to representation for its own sake and the apotheosis of singular figures and a politics without hope
1. Politics of accommodation
2. Politics of despair
3. Standpoint theory
4. Riff-raff theory
Politics of despair
38
According to Calvin Warren, nihilism ______
1. Is antithetical to hope
2. Extinguished hope
3. Both a and b
4. Reconfigures hope
Reconfigures hope
39
According to Calvin Warren, antiblackness is so infused into every fabric of social existence, that black emancipation requires ______
1. Progressive social reforms
2. Global governance and transnational cooperation
3. A charismatic leader with politcal power
4. Literally destroying the world
Literally destroying the world
40
According to Cornel West, _____, has directed most of the anger, rage, and despair toward fellow black citizens, especially toward black women
1. The markey way of life
2. Black existential agnst
3. Poverty-ridden conditions
4. Each of these
Each of these
41
Harriet Tubman made nineteen trips to the U.S. South led others to freedom from slavery; however, blacks were not safe anywhere in the U.S. due to the ______
1. Three fifths compromise
2. Fugitive slave law
3. Bills of rights
4. New deal
Fugitive slave law
42
According to Frantz Fanon, the liberatiing role of violence to attain liberation from the colonizer was to the colonized could _______
1. Acquire civil rights
2. Turn the colonizers into the colonized
3. Realize their humanity
4. Transfer wealth to the poor
Realize their humanity
43
According to ______ bloodshed would be inevitable if racism cannot be resolved
1. Julia Foote
2. Howard Thurman
3. Ralph Abernathy
4. Malcolm X
Malcolm X
44
Before slave trade, European trade with Africa was for ______
1. Salt
2. Myrrh
3. Timber
4. Gold
Gold
45
According to Marcus Garvey _____
1. Africans were one people
2. Africans can be subdivided into two groups, Black and Mulatto
3. Africans, Europeans, and Asians are one people
4. Africans have no homeland
Africans were one people
46
According to Martin Delany, as soon as Blacks are able to acquire a few conviences and some leisure, blacks they often become _____ in American society
1. Complacent about their second-class status
2. Increasingly militant
3. Empowered to sacrifice for Blacks who remain economicallly excluded
4. Resourceful in transforming structures
Complacent about their second-class status
47
Optimism about blacks achieving full citenship rights in America has always been the hallmark of _______
1. Class black nationalism
2. Pragmatic black nationalism
3. Integrationism
4. Isolationism
Integrationism
48
Slave revolt leaders include each of the following except ______
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Gabriel Prosser
3. Nat Turner
4. Denmark Vesey
Marcus Garvey
49
The establishment of a black political society on a local level best descibes
1. Classical black nationalism
2. Pragmatic black nationalism
3. Integrationism
4. Isolationism
Pragmatic black nationalism
50
Intergrationism is based on ______; whereas black nationalism is a response to ________
1. Pessimism; mobility
2. Self-determination; prosperity
3. Desperation; hope
4. What is achievable; desperation
Self-determination; prosperity
51
The establishment of an independment Black republic best describes
1. Clasical black nationalism
2. Pragmatic black nationalism
3. Integrationism
4. Isolationism
Integrationism
52
The ebb and flow of black nationalism, during the nineteenth century and thereafter, was influenced by blacks feeling that the achievement of equality was impossible which were especially triggered by each of the following except _______
1. The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
2. Dred Scott (1857)
3. Fourteenth Amendement (1868)
4. Hayes Compromise (1877)
Fourteenth Amendement (1868)
53
Prominent Black nationalist voices of the nineteenth century include ____ and _____
1. Marcus Garvey; Huey P. Newton
2. David Walker; Martin Delany
3. Henry McNeal Turner; Martin Luther King
4. Noble Drew Ali; Bobby Seale
David Walker; Martin Delany
54
One of the reaons why Martin Delany supported emigration by leaving the United States entails ________
1. Reuniting with family in Africa as the homeland
2. Adapting to the globalization of capitalism
3. Going where realizing equality, citizenship, and self-governing becomes probable
4. Bring Western civilization to Sub-Sahara Africa
Going where realizing equality, citizenship, and self-governing becomes probable
55
The roots of black nationalism go back to the _____, when Africans, longing for their homeland, banded together in a common struggle against slavery, because they knew that there were not created for servitude
1. Twentieth century Great Migration
2. Nineteenth century Reconstruction
3. Eighteenth century American Revolution
4. Seventeenth century slave conspiracies
Seventeenth century slave conspiracies
56
Black nationalism generally advocates ____ and ____
1. Pluralism; assimilation
2. Self-determination; racial solidarity
3. Compassion; self-discipline
4. Utilitarianism; civil religion
Self-determination; racial solidarity
57
The central ingredient(s) which shaped the early development of nationalist consciousness include ______
1. Unity as a people
2. Territory to build a nation
3. The creation of autonomous institutions
4. Each of these
Each of these
58
According to Tommie Shelby the Four Core Principles that Undergrid Delany's political philosophy include each of the following except _______
1. Social equality
2. Democratic citizenship
3. Self-government
4. Neoliberal government
Neoliberal government
59
According to James H. Cone, black nationalism is defined by a ________
1. Desire to assimilate into an ethinically diverse society
2. Longing to attain global superiority
3. Sense of hope through hopelessness
4. Loss of hope in America
Loss of hope in America
60
The father of "Black Nationalist Theory" best describes ________
1. E. Franklin Frazier
2. Martine Delany
3. Amiri Baraka
4. Howard Thurman
Martine Delany
61
The migration of the Black Masses from the U.S. South to northern urban areas between the years slighty before WWI until the early 1970s became known as the ____
1. Great Migration
2. Great Society
3. New Deal
4. Trail of Tears
Great Migration
62
The petit bourgeoisie were both monimally and histroically the middlemen of capitalism, its managers, technicans, small merchants, and shopekeepers, unlike the ______
1. Lumenpenproletariat
2. Proletariat
3. Bourgeoisie
4. Peasantry
Bourgeoisie
63
Reactions that peoples of Africa as captives in the Americas under new conditions include the following _______
1. Attempts to escape
2. Establishment of fugitive settlements
3. Recreation of old life in a new world
4. Each of these
Each of these
64
According to Robin D.G. Kelly, the making of race is ______
1. Solely in North America
2. Less significant than class
3. Confined to the Black Atlantic
4. Global
Global
65
According to Robin D.G. Kelly, the secret for capitalism to survive is
1. Racism
2. Inconclusive
3. Human potential
4. Demand and Suppy
Racism
66
According to Marx, what strategy do workers employ to deflect hostitility that would would otherwise be aimed at capitalists?
1. Encouraging teamwork and cooperation among workers
2. Provide a few extra rewards to workers who are highly productive and successful at pleasing the boss
3. Strengthening collective bargaining rights for workers
4. Increasing job security among workers to miniminze the threat of becoming discarded
Provide a few extra rewards to workers who are highly productive and successful at pleasing the boss
67
Which of the following expression best describes a negation of Western civilization
1. Black nationalism
2. Black nihilism
3. Black radicalism
4. Black existentialism
Black radicalism
68
According to Robin D.G. Kelly, causes for Flint, Michigan crisis of water contamination with lead is
1. The water in the pipes had ceased to save money
2. Austerity measures were used to reduce local debt
3. Race and Poverty
4. Each of these
Each of these
69
Overall, Marx and Engels
1. Valued non-European races to European races
2. Valued Europeans races to non-Europeans races
3. Did not acknowledge the existence of races
4. Believed that all races have equal value
Valued Europeans races to non-Europeans races
70
There were several problems associated with Marx's theory; which was not one of them?
1. The failure of communist societies
2. Missing demension of gender
3. Marx saw the economy as driven by production and he ignored the role of consumption
4. Marx was overly critical of conceptions of Western progroess
Marx was overly critical of conceptions of Western progroess
71
According to Robin D.G. Kelly, black women
1. Built roads
2. Were stripped of gender
3. Worked on plantations
4. Each of these
Each of these
72
The metaphor which descirbes the slave sterotypes and posture of docile and submissiveness which has historically function as a mask to hide true fellings is
1. The Jezebel
2. The Sambo
3. The Invisible Man
4. The Mammie
The Sambo
73
According to Cedric Robinson, _____ was a critical foundation of capitalism
1. Slavery
2. Feudalism
3. The Protestant Reformation
4. The military industrial complex
Slavery
74
Marx and Engels views on races included each of the following except ______
1. Marx and Engels valued the European races more then non-Europena races
2. Marx and Engels understood races as socially constructed more so than a natural phenomenon
3. Marx and Engels reserved particulary negative comments for black skinned people, suggesting that they are a degree closer to animals than the rest of humanity
4. Marx and Engels suggested that all races had positive as well as negative inborn qualities
Marx and Engels understood races as socially constructed more so than a natural phenomenon
75
According to Cedric Robinson, the historical development of world capitalism was influenced in a most fundamental way by the particularistic forces of ____ and ____
1. Deindustrialization, globalization
2. Religion, politics
3. Communism, nationalism
4. Racism, nationalism
Racism, nationalism
76
The first New World colony to achieve independence from its European colonizer was ____ and the second New World colony to achieve independence from its European colonizer was ____
1. Suriname; Dominica
2. Brazil; Haiti
3. Cape Verde Islands; Jamaica
4. Fort Mose; San Domingo
Brazil; Haiti
77
The first slave society to achieve permanent destruction of a slave system was _____
1. Haiti
2. Brazil
3. The United States
4. The Cape Verde Islands
Haiti
78
The ____ is wedged between the laboring classes beneath them and the foreign and native operatives of capital and officials of the state above
1. Lumenpenproletariat
2. Proletariat
3. Petit bourgeoisie
3. Bourgeoisie
Petit bourgeoisie
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Although the petit bourgeoisie did not own or control the means of production, still, it was a class whose members recognized their dependence on the _____ for social privileges
1. Clergy
2. Military
3. Commoners
4. Bourgeoisie
Bourgeoisie
80
Federalism had evolved into ____ which has historically been used to civil rights legislation as an ideological dressing form of repression
1. Human Rights
2. States rights
3. Utilitarianism
4. Fordism
States rights
81
A(n) ____ system is an artifically construction of a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestory and often immutale traits
1. Slave
2. Estate
3. Caste
4. Class
Caste
82
According to Isabel Wilkerson, caste power comes from each of the following except _____
1. Extra legal practices such as lynching
2. Miscegenation laws
3. Civil rights organization
4. The danger of silence from bystanders
Civil rights organization
83
According to Berg, the caste (varna) system of India regards the ____ as pure and the ____ or untouchable as impure
1. Dalit; Brahmins
2. Shundras; Dalit
3. Vaishya; Shundras
4. Brahmins; Dalit
Brahmins; Dalit
84
A form of the caste system that, until recently was legal in South Africa was called
1. Slavery
2. Endogamy
3. Apartheid
4. Compurgation
Apartheid
85
According to Conrel West, when large numbers of voices go unheard then they begin to feel hopeless and begin to _____
1. Seek alliances with other oppressed groups
2. Embrance the fine an performing arts as a means for collective expression
3. Organize and bring forth revolutionary change
4. Turn on each other
Turn on each other
86
According to Isabel Wilkerson, some Dalits felt to strong a kinship with one wing of the American civil rights movement and had followed it so closely that, in the 1970s, they created the Dalit Panthers, inspired by the _____
1. African National Congress
2. Black Panthers
3. Congress of Racial Equality
4. Southern Chrisitian Leadership Council
Black Panthers
87
Max Weber defines caste in terms of each of the following expect _____
1. An open system in which social mobility is possible
2. Status-group in relation to a heirarchy of honor
3. An ethnic community
4. Economic indispensability
An open system in which social mobility is possible
88
In the Indian caste system, a person in a leadership position in the national government would be a part of the _____
1. Shundra
2. Kshatriya
3. Brahmins
4. Vaishya
Kshatriya
89
In the Indian caste system, a person who works in a factoring and does general labor would be part of the ______
1. Shudra
2. Brahmins
3. Vaishya
4. Dalit
Shudra
90
According to Isabel Wilkerson, two of the most influential popular films of the early twentieth century fed the country with the COnfederate version of the war and portrayed th people of degraded and lowest caste as capable only of brute villainy or child-like buffooneray are _____ and _____
1. Cleopatra Jones; Shaft
2. Birth of a Nation; Gone with the Wind
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; My Fair Lady
4. The Magnificent Seven; Planet of the Apes
Birth of a Nation; Gone with the Wind
91
This was the last state to throw out its law against intermarriage and it did not do so until year 2000
1. Arizona
2. Alabama
3. Puerto Rico
4. District of Columbia
Alabama
92
According to Isabel Wilkerson, since the early twentieth century, the wealthiest African Americans have traditonally been _____ and ______
1. CEOs of multinational corporations; Top shareholders of the futures market
2. Physicians; Attorneys
3. Ranchers; Military Officiers
4. Athletes; Entertainers
Athletes; Entertainers
93
Two prominent and early Black sociologists whose scholarship reflects the caste studies include ______
1. Vilfredo Pareto; George Herbert Mead
2. Robert Merton; William Chambliss
3. Charles S. Johnson; Oliver Cromwell Cox
4. Anthony Giddens; Talcott Parsons
Charles S. Johnson; Oliver Cromwell Cox
94
Which statement is generally true regarding the caste system?
1. It relies on strigmatizing a group
2. It is reinforced through culture
3. It is passed down through generation
4. Each of these
Each of these
95
According to Cornel West, there were over 200 uprisings in the aftermath of ______
1. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
2. Bloody Sunday of 1965
3. The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
4. The Jonestown Massacre of 1978
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
96
Means to keep an entire group "in their place" and beneath their talents include each of the following except ______
1. Violence and terror
2. Members of the dominant caste sitting back doing nothing
3. The promotion of universal growth and development of all members of society
4. Teaching and learning inferiority and superiority
The promotion of universal growth and development of all members of society
97
The guided question of David Walker's *Appeal *(1839) is _____
1. "Why cant we all just get along?"
2. "What does it mean to be human?"
3. "How does it feel to be free?"
4. "What is the meaning of an examined life?"
"What does it mean to be human?"
98
The Lincoln-Douglass debate alluded to the major challenege of _____
1. Creating a gender inclusive society
2. Protecting civillians from war crimes
3. Annexing territory beyond Continental U.S. territories
4. Creating a multiracial democracy
Creating a multiracial democracy
99
According to Isabel Wilkerson, American news outlets feed audiences a diet of _____ and _____ so out of proportion to the numbers that they distort perceptions of African Americans
1. Coporate excess; black exceptionalism
2. Nonviolent collective behavior; black forgiveness
3. Rags-to-riches narratives; strong kinship bonds
4. Inner-city crime; poverty
Inner-city crime; poverty
100
Which group is regarded as below or outside the caste system?
1. Dalit
2. Brahmins
3. Shudra
4. Kshatriya
Dalit
101
In the sociological of both Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells, ____ is the fundamental relation of social life
1. Tradtion
2. Conflict
3. Power
4. Time
Power
102
According to Preston King, the problems with protest in exile is that ____
1. It defies conventional wisdom
2. It would provoke uprisings
3. It could get you killed
4. It might not be heard
It might not be heard
103
The politics of accommodation which entails accepting one's place in society is associated with ______
1. Marcus Garvey
2. Henry McNeal Turner
3. Nat Turner
4. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
104
Reconstruction ended with _____ which resulted in the withdrawal of Federal troops from the U.S. South
1. The War of 1812
2. The Thirteenth Amendment
3. The Great Migration
4. The Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877
105
Modern civilization derived its noble "ideal of woman" which entails not being well informed, denial of aspiration, denial of growth and development, and life purpose of glorifying man from ____ and _____
1. Globlization; postmodernity
2. Greco-Roman Christianity; the feudal system
3. Urbanization; deindustrialization
4. The Industrial Revolution; the Great Migration
Greco-Roman Christianity; the feudal system
106
According to Anna Julia Cooper, the importance of education includes each of the following except ______
1. To assimilate
2. Push the color line
3. Push the gender line
4. Make students think critically
To assimilate
107
According to Preston King, the object of lynching includes each of the following except ______
1. Subjection through terror
2. Prevent black population growth
3. Keeps blacks in their place
4. Keep blacks from getting ahead
Prevent black population growth
108
According to *A Voice from the South* by Anna Julia Cooper, Southern Ideals and Southern Ideas include which of the following?
1. Pitting mulatto against black
2. Pitting house slaves against plantation slaves
3. Pitting slaves against slaves from different clans
4. Each of these
Each of these
109
De Tocqueville predicted that ____
1. The arc of justice will eventually bend toward justice
2. America will become a multiracial democracy by the later part of the nineteenth century
3. Republicanism must fail in America
4. Utilitarianism will outlive pragmatism
Republicanism must fail in America
110
According to Preston King, poor whites were often, if not characteristically, made poorer by their inability to complete under the slave regime. In reponse many of them moved to _____ with the intent to improve their prospects
1. Australia
2. The Isles of the Caribbean
3. Canada
4. The Midwest
The Midwest
111
According to Preston King, _____ encouraged lynch laws
1. A desire to maintain order, due to fear of enraged Blacks
2. Maintenance of White domination
3. Avenging assaults on White women
4. Each of these
Each of these
112
According to Anna Julia Cooper lamented the effects of the _____ has had on education specifically its tendency to override the individual for the sake of standardization and production volume
1. Golden Age
2. Machine Age
3. Anthropocence Age
4. Postindustrial Age
Machine Age
113
Immediately following the Civil War, approximately _____ percent of Blacks were illiterate
1. Ten
2. Fifty
3. Ninety
4. Twenty-five
Ninety
114
Public alibies to encourage lynching inculded each of the following except ______
1. A form of punishment for vagrancy
2. Avenge Negro (Black) assaults on White women
3. False accusations of blacks engaged in murderous insurrections
4. A means to prevent Negro (Black) domination and guarantee White Domination
A form of punishment for vagrancy
115
Ida B. Wells exposed the real story behind the murders of Wil Stewart, Calvin McDowell, and Thomas Moss which was _______
1. Black men attempting to find lodging in Stone Mountain, GA after sunset
2. A white grocer feeling threatened by the presence of People's Grocery in Memphis, TN
3. White resentment of economic competition from thriving businesses in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK
4. Execution for raping a woman in the Central Park in New York, NY
A white grocer feeling threatened by the presence of People's Grocery in Memphis, TN
116
According to Preston King, Post-Bellum for Whites to retrieve fortunes include each of the following except _____
1. Exclusion of Blacks from the right to vote
2. Attack Black free speech
3. Exculding Blacks from serving in the military
4. Physical seperation of the races
Exculding Blacks from serving in the military
117
What was the collective retaliatory response led by Ida B. Wells, to the murder of the three grocers in Memphis?
1. There was a multiracial hunger strike until the murderers were brought to justice
2. There was a collective embrance of the politics of accommodation
3. There was a large black exodus from Memphis
4. There was a large-scale uprising of armed resistance in the form of a race war
There was a large black exodus from Memphis
118
Anna Julia Cooper's criterion for a critical evaluation of society was whether it was characterized by ______ or ______
1. Nature; nurture
2. Social intergration; social isolation
3. Aspirational capital; navigational capital
4. Equilibrium; domination
Equilibrium; domination
119
This journalist spearheaded an anti-lynching crusade which began over a decade prior to the formation of the NAACP
1. Shirley Chisholm
2. Anna Julia Cooper
3. Ida. B Wells
4. Maria Stewart
Ida. B Wells
120
Malcom X's trip to ______ and _____ reinforced his conviction that the black freedom movement in America could not be separated from American liberation struggles on the continent
1. Roxbury; Harlem
2. Detroit, MI; Topeka, KS
3. Brazil; Cuba
4. Mecca; Africa
Mecca; Africa
121
Each of the these speeches were delivered by Malcolm X except
1. "Message from the Grassroots"
2. "I have a Dream"
3. "The Ballot or the Bullet"
4. "By Any Means Necessary"
"I have a Dream"
122
Malcom X was the founder of which organization?
1. The Nation of Islam
2. Southern Christian Leadership Council
3. The Black Panther Party
4. Organization of Afro-American Unity
Organization of Afro-American Unity
123
Each of the following occurred before Malcom X was assassinated except?
1. Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL
2. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
3. The March on Washington of 1963
4. The Bombing of Sixteenth Street Church in Birmingham, AL
Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL
124
Malcom X redefines ______ as having no sense of one's oppressed condition and merely identifying with one's oppressor
1. Amalgamation
2. Amelioration
3. Alienation
4. Anomie
Alienation
125
The rise of black power and black theology was largely due to the influence of ______
1. Malcom X
2. Ralph Abernathy
3. Adam Clayton Power
4. Andrew Young
Malcom X
126
According to Malcom X, the historical nature of revolutions includes each of the following except ________
1. Rationale (Assimilation)
2. Motives (Acquisition of land)
3. Objectives (Independence)
4. Results (Bloodshed)
Rationale (Assimilation)
127
In response to Bloody Sunday, on March 15, 1965, President _______ addressed a joint session of Congress
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Gerald Ford
4. Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
128
Malcom X redefines both the Marxian concept of ______ as a descriptive of the "house negro" as one who is content with one's state of wretchedness
1. Class consciousness
2. False consciousness
3. Image consciousness
4. Revolutionary instinct
False consciousness
129
In the speech entitled "Message from the Grassroots" the only revolution depicted as nonviolent is the _______
1. American Revolution
2. French Revolution
3. Russian Revolution
4. Negro Revolution
Negro Revolution
130
According to Malcom X, the _______ can distinguish the difference between a state of tutelage and a state of enlightenment
1. The "house negro"
2. The "field negro"
3. Both a and b
4. None of these
The "field negro"
131
Which of the following accurately describes what is remembered about Malcolm X?
1. He shifted his politics to support the formation of coalition with progressive Whites
2. He was a life-long member of the Nation of Islam
3. He taught Blacks that they must resist White authority with "any means necessary"
4. He made public statements about Jews and Israel that gave an anti-Semitic politics to his teachings
He shifted his politics to support the formation of coalition with progressive Whites
132
______ was highly critical of the civil rights movement in general and of Martin Luther King Jr., in particular
1. Maria Stewart
2. Booker T. Washington
3. Malcolm X
4. Fannie Lou Hamer
Malcolm X
133
Malcolm X's philosophy can be summarized by which of the following?
1. Knowing black history
2. Self-determination for the Black community
3. Pride in Blackness
4. All of these
All of these
134
The "field negro" and the "house negro are metaphors for artistically constructed strategies fro counter-revolutionary ends which aims to _______
1. Sew discord
2. Thrive of false consciousness
3. Dismantle prospective coalitions before they begin
4. Each of these
Each of these
135
According to Marx, components of alienation which include the following except _______
1. Human potential
2. Productive activity
3. Shared governance
4. Fellow workers
Shared governance
136
Three images of a sociologists in the tradition of Malcolm X include the following ______
1. Philanthropist, distinctiveness, passivity
2. Professional, scientist, revolutionary
3. Individuality, marketable, capitalist
4. Innovative, industrious, isolation
Professional, scientist, revolutionary
137
In terms of the Civil Rights Movement, Malcolm X overlooked ________
1. The idea the violence was used but it was hidden rather than put on full display
2. The idea that the objectives were more complex than sharing public spaces across racial lines
3. The idea that the civl rights movement was revolutionary because it was experimental and partly inspired by Ghandi
4. Each of these
Each of these
138
Malcolm X regarded America as morally worse than _____ because the latter practiced what it preached apartheid, while America preaches freedom and deomcracy while discriminating against its people of color
1. South Africa
2. Switzerland
3. Ethiopia
4. Liberia
South Africa
139
El-Haji Malik El-Shabazz is the latter name of ________
1. Malcolm X
2. Hap. Rap Brown
3. Marcus Garvey
4. Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
140
According to King, the three evils of society are ________
1. Racism, excessive materialism, and militarism
2. Neocolonialism, racism, and sexism
3. Mass incarceration, substance abuse, and racism
4. Apathy, demoralization, and political gridlock
Racism, excessive materialism, and militarism
141
Women of the Civil Rights Movement include each of the following except ________
1. Fannie Lou Hammer
2. Phyllis Wheatley
3. Septima Clark
4. Ella Baker
Phyllis Wheatley
142
Sermons that address King's Anti-Vietnam War Stance include each of the following except ________
1. "A Knock at Midnight"
2. "Rediscovering Lost Values"
3. "Drum Major Instinct"
4. "Unfulfilled Dreams"
"Rediscovering Lost Values"
143
Challenges to Kings optimism of the Beloved Community include each of following except ______
1. Four girls killed in Birmingham Church
2. A prolonged economic recession
3. Killing of Civil Rights Workers
4. The assassination of John F. Kennedy
A prolonged economic recession
144
Martin Luther King, Jr. advocated ________
1. Nonviolence
2. Pluralism
3. Separatism
4. Colonialism
Nonviolence
145
Martin Luther King Jr approach included all of the following except ______
1. Passive acceptance of injustice
2. The need to win ones opponent through understanding
3. Belief in nonviolent resistance
4. Refusal to hate his opponent
Passive acceptance of injustice
146
Which Civil Rights group was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr?
1. National Association for Advancement of Colored People
2. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
3. Nonviolence Coordinating Committee
4. Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
147
Which of the following was part of Martin Luther King jr's civil disobedience strategy?
1. Active nonviolent resistance
2. Seeking to win friendship and understanding of opponents
3. Willingness to accept suffering without retaliation
4. All of the above
All of the above
148
During the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, active participation accompanied _______
1. Police harassment
2. Death threats
3. House bombings
4. Each of these
Each of these
149
What was the basis for King's opposition to Malcolm X's theory of revolution
1. Blacks are numerical minority with insufficient access to warfare weapons
2. Lack of means to wage a successful violent revolution against a numerical majority with military technology
3. Talking tough would only arouse genocidal instinct in white people
4. Each of these
Each of these
150
Optimism about Blacks achieving full citizenship right in Americans had always been the hallmark of _______
1. Utilitarianism
2. Exceptionalism
3. Integrationism
4. Isolationism
Integrationism
151
According to Martin Luther King jr ______ was the most blatant expression of brokenness between humans beings in America
1. Segregation
2. Integration
3. Exceptionalism
4. Egalitarianism
Segregation
152
Two weeks after Kings great speech entitled "I Have a Dream" at the March on Washington was the ________
1. Passing of the Civil Rights Act
2. Passing of the Voting Rights Act
3. Passing of the Fair Housing Act
4. Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
153
Martin Luther King Jr earned a bachelors degree in ______ from Morehouse College and a doctoral degree in ________ from Boston University
1. Economics; political science
2. Sociology; systematic theology
3. History; public affairs
4. English; psychology
Sociology; systematic theology
154
What formed the contact for Martin Kings ideas of the "American Dream"?
1. The images of the 'North' and 'South" in the consciousness of black and white Americans during the 1950's and 1960s
2. The emergence of a resistance movement among the Southern Black Masses
3. Nationalism in the North, especially as defined by the Black Muslim and Malcolm X
4. Each of these
Each of these
155
Martin Luther King Jr's intellectual roots do not include _________
1. Howard Thurman
2. Benjamin May's
3. Josiah Young
4. Carter G. Woodson
Josiah Young
156
Why did Martin Luther King Jr. move closer to Malcolm X's separatist position?
1. The rise of the Black Power Movement
2. The failure of the most Whites to support authentic integration
3. Both a and b
4. None of these
Both a and b
157
Like Malcolm X, King described America as _________
1. Exceptional
2. Utilitarian
3. Morally sick
4. A true democracy
Morally sick
158
At the conclusion of Martin Luther Kings "Drum Major Instinct" (1968( he concedes that individuals can achieve greatness though ________
1. Serving others
2. Charismatic authority
3. Conspicuous consumption
4. Educational achievements
Serving others
159
Which book was written by Martin Luther King Jr.?
1. The Cross and the Lynching tree
2. Race Matters
3. Community or Chaos
4. For My People
Community or Chaos
160
According to Rabat, a shortcoming of Marxism entails ________
1. Its underestimation of the power of the bourgeoisie
2. Its silence on racial colonialism
3. Its model of an inevitable classless society lacks empirical evidence
4. Its model
Its silence on racial colonialism
161
Western popular culture has historically equated _______ with impurity and evil
1. Aristocracies
2. Blackness
3. Whiteness
4. Colonizers
Blackness
162
A process that occurs when the culture of the colonized people become replaced by the culture of the colonial power best describes _______
1. Cultural lag
2. Cultural leveling
3. Cultural assimilation
4. Cultural diffusion
Cultural assimilation
163
Which is an example of a radical grassroots movements?
1. Black Women's liberation
2. Black Arts Movement
3. Black power
4. Each of these
Each of these
164
Misrepresentations of black anger include each of the following except ______
1. Reverse racism
2. Grassroots organization
3. Blind hatred
4. Animalistic irrationality
Grassroots organization
165
The term "Negritude" was coined by ______
1. Huey Newton
2. Aime Cesaire
3. Alaine Locke
4. Maria Stewart
Aime Cesaire
166
According to Rabat, under _______
neither the colonized nor colonizer knows himself or herself
1. Anarchism
2. Bureaucratic authority
3. Colonialism
4. Democratic governments
Colonialism
167
What method and mode did Frantz Fanon use for interpretation?
1. Negritude
2. Existentialist
3. Phenomenologist
4. Each of these
Each of these
168
Following the Berlin Conference of 1884, the only two countries that were free from European colonization included ________ and ______
1. Algeria; Morocco
2. Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands
3. Mozambique, Angola
4. Liberia, Ethiopia
Liberia, Ethiopia
169
For Fanon, racism and colonialism at their core are outright ________
1. Naked violence
2. Physical violence
3. Psychological violence
4. Each of these
Each of these
170
According to Rabat, ______ argues that individuals develop by exercising their own free will
1. Existentialism
2. Utilitarianism
3. Postmodernism
4. Secessionism
Existentialism
171
Negritude writers included each of the following except ________
1. Harriet Martineau
2. Paulette Nardal
3. Jeanne Nardal
4. Aime Cesaire
Harriet Martineau
172
According to Bose, the power of the masses can only become a truly effective form of political power when the linages between _________, ______, and _____ articulates a political subjectivity of the people at an intercontinental level
1. Asia; Africa; Europe
2. The Americas; Africa; Asia
3. Europe; the Americas; Asia
4. Africa; Europe; and the Americas
The Americas; Africa; Asia
173
Which of the following was a French Colony?
1. Algeria
2. Botswana
3. Sudan
4. Liberia
Algeria
174
For Fanon, the colonized are caught in an impossible bind because ________
1. They are unable to celebrate their native culture
2. The are unable to achieve equality within the colonial culture
3. The belief that the only way to be human is to be white
4. Each of these
Each of these
175
Which book was written by Frantz Fanon?
1. Community or Chaos
2. The Cross and the Lynching Tree
3. Wretched of the Earth
4. Stony the Road We Trod
Wretched of the Earth
176
The body of ideas reflecting the interest of a group of people best describes a(n) ______
1. Ideology
2. Political action committee
3. Groupthink
4. Schism
Ideology
177
According to Patricia Hill Collins, U.S. Black Women intellectuals were excluded from W.E.B. Dubois notion of the ________
1. Talented tenth
2. Politics of Accommodation
3. Congress of Racial Equality
4. Denomination
Talented tenth
178
As a political philosophy, _______ is based on the belief that Black people constitute a people or nation with a common history and destiny
1. Black existentialism
2. Black nationalism
3. Black Nihilism
4. Sectarianism
Black nationalism
179
Professions such as day care, clerical work, low paid fast food, and nursing home workers describe, new forms of work associated with which of the five controlling images described by Patrica Hill Collins?
1. Matriarch
2. Black lady
3. Mammy
4. Jezebel
Mammy
180
According to Patricia Hill Collins, which of the following typifies the black urban labor market?
1. Black men have higher wages, and less job security
2. Black women have lower wages and more job security
3. Black men have higher wages and more job security
4. Both a and b
Both a and b
181
According to Patricia Hill Collins, what was the impact of the introduction of crack cocaine in urban black neighborhoods in the early 1980s?
1. It incorporated men and women into the informal economy in gender specific ways
2. Drugs became a major employers of young black men
3. Young black women looked to men employed in the underground economy, specifically the drug industry for financial assistance
4. None of these
Young black women looked to men employed in the underground economy, specifically the drug industry for financial assistance
182
Cardinal virtues of the cult of true womanhood include each of the following except _______
1. Purity
2. Assertiveness
3. Submissiveness
4. Domesticity
Assertiveness
183
Which of the following image describes the obedient domestic servant?
1. Matriarch
2. Mammy
3. Jezebel
4. Welfare recipient
Mammy
184
Which controlling image describes the female head of household who emasculates her husband or lover, and "cannot keep a man"
1. Matriarch
2. Mammy
3. Jezebel
4. Welfare recipient
Matriarch
185
Which controlling image describes the stereotypes of having many children while concurrently lazy and a big consumer?
1.Black lady
2. Jezebel
3. Mammy
4. Matriarch
Jezebel
186
Which controlling image describes the high achieving, career consumed women whose qualification are questioned?
1. Mammy
2. Black lady
3. Welfare recipient
4. Jezebel
Black lady
187
The term womanist was originally coined by _____
1. Angela Davis
2. Alice Walker
3. Katie Cannon
4. Patricia Hill Collins
Alice Walker
188
Katie Cannon's three dimensions of black womanist ethics embraces which of the following?
1. Invisible dignity
2. Quiet grace
3. Outstated courage
4. Each of these
Each of these
189
The first African Americans women elected to the U.S. Senate was _______
1. Ann Richardson
2. Barbarda Jordan
3. Carol Mosley Braun
4. Kamala Harris
Carol Mosley Braun
190
The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson declared that ________
1. Women should get equal pay for comparable work
2. Sexual harassment by a supervisor violates the federal law
3. Domestic violence was unconstitutional
4. Women have a right to an abortion
Sexual harassment by a supervisor violates the federal law
191
Sexual harassment by a supervisor violates the federal law against sex discretion in the workplace, according to ________
1. Roe v. Wade
2. The 1964 Civil Rights Act
3. The 19th Amendment
4. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1968
The 1964 Civil Rights Act
192
The means in which individuals modify their behavior to appear acceptable to society's dominate standards best describes _______
1. Politics of accommodation
2. Politics of respectability
3. Cultural diffusions
4. Achieved status
Politics of respectability
