The Politics of Respectability Quiz

Recall the quotation:

"We should be black but not too black, neither too _______ nor too ______"

• Happy / Sad

• Dark / White

• Ratchet/Bougie

Who's commentary on race is this a summary of ?

"If we act right, we will finally be good enough for white people to love us"

• Don Lemon

• James Baldwin
• Bill Cosby

• Kanye West

Where does the concept of sagging pants come from?

• Hip-hop culture
• Prisons
• Fashion trends
• Military uniforms

Answer explanation

"In the prisons, it evolved into which role each prisoner would have during male-on-male prison sex "

Who offered the black community five suggestions for the black community

(Stopping N-word usage, stop littering, staying in school, fewer births out of wedlock, men pull pants up)

• Don Lemon

• Bill Cosby

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Barack Obama

Who's solely responsible for oppression ?

• Oppressor

• Ben Simmons

• Neither

• Oppressed

Obama offered suggestions about how we might improve race relations in the United States and finding an effective way to support black​ ​ (a)   (Black ​ (b)   seem to be forgotten)

• boys
• girls

What do you believe to be respectability politics?

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