Deck 14: Racial Justice in the United States Today

Question 1

On the 50^th 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.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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

A) racial justice.
B) racial utopia.
C) racial peace.
D) racial community.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Eric Yamamoto's first step towards racial justice is:

A) Realization.
B) Recognition.
C) Respect.
D) Ratification.

Answer 3

B

Question 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.

Question 5

Eric Yamamoto's second step towards racial justice is:

A) Respectability.
B) Reliability.
C) Renumeration.
D) Responsibility.

Question 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?

Question 7

Eric Yamamoto's third step towards racial justice is:

A) Rebuilding.
B) Regeneration.
C) Reconstruction.
D) Renovation.

Question 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.

Question 9

Eric Yamamoto's fourth step towards racial justice is:

A) Renumeration.
B) Reparations.
C) Reimbursement.
D) Repayment.

Question 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.

Question 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.

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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.

Question 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

Question 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

Question 17

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.

Question 18

The three interlocking systems of oppression include the following EXCEPT.

A) White privilege
B) patriarchy
C) capitalism
D) White supremacy

Question 19

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.

Question 20

What is racial justice?

Question 21

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

Question 22

What do Civil Rights include?

Question 23

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says:

Question 24

Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says:

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

What happened to the police officers in Breonna Taylor's case?

Question 28

What happened to the police officer who killed George Floyd?

Question 29

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

Question 30

What does racial justice look like for different people?

Question 31

According to Dr. Darity (2008) what would reparations look like?
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Question 32

What was the Supreme Court's justification for gutting the Voting Rights Act?

Question 33

What is a human rights framework?

Question 34

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