Self-Quiz 4.21: Elizabeth Anderson, The Future of Racial Integration

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According to Anderson, Americans have largely attained which stage(s) of integration?

Only formal desegregation correct incorrect

Only formal desegregation and spatial integration correct incorrect

Only formal desegregation, spatial integration, and formal social integration correct incorrect

Formal desegregation, spatial integration, formal social integration, and informal social integration correct incorrect

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What does Anderson identify as the fundamental expressive point of segregationist law or policy?

To identify who is part of the majority and who is part of the minority correct incorrect

To signal the location of social power correct incorrect

To constitute the excluded group as an untouchable caste correct incorrect

To condone a "'separate but equal" doctrine correct incorrect

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Which of the following does Anderson identify as the main problem driving social segregation?

Self-avowed racists correct incorrect

Unconscious aversive attitudes correct incorrect

Internalized self-deprecation correct incorrect

Institutionalized power structures correct incorrect

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How does Anderson characterize democracy?

One person, one vote correct incorrect

A system in which the majority rules, subject to certain constrains correct incorrect

A form of collective self-governance based on discussion among equal citizens correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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How does segregation undermine democracy?

It prevents citizens from different walks of life from communicating. correct incorrect

It limits representation of minority groups in the legislature. correct incorrect

It restricts minority legislators' ability to build coalitions. correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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Anderson argues that the integrationist agenda should proceed on the following four fronts:

sociological, psychological, philosophical, and mathematical. correct incorrect

political, residential, educational, and economic. correct incorrect

individual, family, community, government. correct incorrect

north, south, east, and west. correct incorrect

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Anderson worries that the conservative opposition to integration

fails to grasp the changed character of white antipathy for black people. correct incorrect

doesn't appreciate the historical causes of segregation. correct incorrect

stems from deep-seated racism. correct incorrect

Both the second and third answer choices are correct. correct incorrect

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Anderson maintains that integration

destroys epistemic diversity. correct incorrect

increases cultural homogenization. correct incorrect

generates new cultural diversities. correct incorrect

destroys cultural meanings. correct incorrect