Iah 207 Final Exam Updated Questions And Correct Answers

IAH 207 FINAL EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Puddn'head Wil-son
Answer:
Mark Twain, 1894

Question:
2. Puddn'head Wil-son: setting
Answer:
Dawson's Landing, 1830 (slave town on the Mississippi)

Question:
3. Puddn'head Wil-son: Judge Driscoll
Answer:
old money; lineage goes back to a Virginia "First Family"; very respected

Question:
4. Puddn'head Wil-son: Percy Driscoll
Answer:
the Judge's brother; a speculator (something like playing the stock market)

Question:
5. Puddn'head Wil-son: Roxy
Answer:
female slave; is the "mammy" (woman who takes care of) the master's child

Question:
6. Puddn'head Wil-son: Chambers
Answer:
Roxy's son; is a slave

Question:
7. Puddn'head Wil-son: Tom
Answer:
Percy's son; mother died, so Roxy takes care of him as well as her son

Question:
8. Puddn'head Wil-son: David Wilson
Answer:
moved to MO from the East; has a law degree but no practice. Townsfolk call him "Puddn'head"
because they think he's naïve, a simpleton

Question:
9. On Being White:
Thinking Toward a Feminist Under-standing of Race and Race Su-premacy

, Answer:
Marilyn Frye

Question:
10. On Being White:
Key premises
Answer:
The US has been, and continues to be, a white supremacist society. Racial injustice is the norm, the
status quo in the US Whiteness is a form of power. Race itself is a form of power relation. Whiteness
(i.e., being white) carries with it certain privileges not available to persons of color. A person has
certain privileges as a white person.

Question:
11. On Being White:
Matrix of Options
Answer:
The term options refers to liberties & opportunities Any choice or action a white person makes is
made against a background of white supremacy. A white person chooses and acts as a white person,
with certain privileges and powers that a black person does not have. White people are part of a racial
group, part of a colored group. Whiteness is a color, not the absence of color.

Question:
12. On Being White:
Disaffiliation
Answer:
If race is a type of kin-group established by law and custom and not a law of nature
- if whiteness is a construct, a way of identifying & experiencing oneself - then it is
thinkable to "disaffiliate" from Whiteness, to stop being "white"...

Question:
13. Non-Cartesian Sums:
Philosophy and the African-Ameri-can Experience
Answer:
by Charles Mills

Question:
14. Non-Cartesian Sums:
Subpersonhood
Answer:
his term captures the reality of the experience of African-Americans historically "an entity which,
because of phenotype [i.e., physical features], seems... human in some respects but not in others. It is
a human...who, though adult, is not fully a person" (Mills, 6).

Question:
15. Passing
Answer:
by Nella Larsen, 1929