"Racism and Visible Race" Self-Quiz

. When Gary Peller was growing up . . .

He was mistreated because of how he looked

He observed that racism was largely the product of the visibility of race

His school tried to reduce racism among students by making them feel each other's faces in the dark

His thinking about the importance of seeing race was influenced by the film Suture

. For Alcoff, racial identity is . . .

Simply a matter of one's visible appearance

A matter of biological or morphological factors

A natural fact

A matter of one's history, culture, and experiences

. By "racial color blindness," Alcoff means . . .

The phenomenon of only seeing certain races

Color blindness that is specific to certain races

The phenomenon of ceasing to see race

None of the above

. Which of the following best characterizes a naturalized account of race and racism?

We have a natural sensitivity to people from different races

Our perception of race is a product of social and historical contexts

Our domain-specific competence and perceptual competence work in tandem

We categorize people by their visible features because classification is natural to human cognition

. Lawrence Hirschfeld held that . . .

Domain-specific and perceptual competence can work in tandem or sequentially

Domain-specific competence is always prior to perceptual competence

Perceptual competence is always prior to domain-specific competence

None of the above

. For Alcoff, it isn't necessary to eliminate our visible practices of racialization to eliminate racism.

True

False

. Alcoff holds that the notion of "racial color blindness" is an effect of racism.

True

False

. Alcoff believes that categorizing people according to skin tone isn't natural to human cognition.

True

False

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