White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Multiple Choice

1. B. How different identities are more important or visible in different contexts (Author’s Note)

2. C. Social; meaning to perpetuate white supremacy (Chapter 2)

3. D. None of the above. In the author’s analysis, the concept of race and racism did not exist before European colonization (Chapter 2)

4. A. It is a racial category devoid of any real genetic or biological markers (Chapter 2)

5. A. It emphasizes the myriad of ways that white privilege functions in individual lives (Chapter 4)

6. A. Because it allows white people avoid confronting racism (Chapter 4)

7. C. Murder (Chapter 5)

8. D. The Blind Side (Chapter 6)

9. D. That white people are good people, free of racism (Chapter 7)

10. A. It silences otherwise productive discussions about racism, denies racism as a problem, and maintains white solidarity (Chapter 9)

11. C. A state of racial comfort rooted in the identity of being good people free of racism (Chapter 7)

12. A. Racist (Chapter 12)

13. B. Other white people (