Assignment for 1/31/08 (Thursday)

Articles 5, 6, 7, and 8

 

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 

____    1.    By claiming that Hawaiians lived under feudalism: Whites

a.	alienated the Hawaiian people from the land
b.	instituted land tenure changes in line with current notions of private property
c.	degraded a successful system of shared land use
d.	all of the above

 

 

____    2.    In "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference," the example of oppressed people having to educate the oppressors in society reflects:

a.	the institutional rejection of difference.
b.	poor educational systems.
c.	skewed images in the media.
d.	none of the above

 

 

____    3.    Audre Lorde, argues that "differences do not separate us, but rather:

a.	our prejudices surrounding differences."
b.	our lack of willpower in making adjustments."
c.	our refusal to recognize them."
d.	all of the above

 

 

____    4.    As noted in "Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference," unlike women of color, white women are seduced by power because:

a.	white women join the oppressor under the pretense that power will be shared.
b.	white women are more likely to identify with power and patriarchal tools.
c.	both a and b
d.	neither a nor b

 

 

____    5.    McIntosh argues that men:

a.	accept their privileged position in relation to women.
b.	accept their privileged position in relation to people of color.
c.	deny their privileged position in relation to women.
d.	deny their privileged position in relation to people of color.

 

 

____    6.    Peggy McIntosh argues that recognizing White privilege challenges:

a.	the notion that an individual's experience is based solely on his or her own merit.
b.	the notion that an individual's experience is based on unearned advantage.
c.	the notion that an individual's experience is based on entitlement.
d.	none of the above

 

 

____    7.    McIntosh acknowledges that running through a matrix of white privilege were a pattern of ____that were passed on to her as a white person.

a.	assumptions
b.	attitudes
c.	behaviors
d.	actions

 

 

____    8.    McIntosh says one factor seems clear about all the interlocking oppressions:

a.	They take both active forms that we can see and embedded forms that members of the dominant group are taught not to see.
b.	They can kill, mane and destroy and yet we feel comfortable with them.
c.	They are none existent and are just a figment of the imagination.
d.	Both a and b are correct

 

 

Essay

 

    9.    What does Lorde mean by a "mythical norm"?

 

    10.    What factors differentiate the experiences of White and Black women?

 

    11.    Does color-blind racism work to maintain or overcome racial inequality? Please explain your answer.

 

    12.    In what way do men deny their privileged position? In what way do Whites?

 

    13.    Why do you think people deny their privilege?