What is the epistemology of ignorance

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1. What is the "epistemology of ignorance," according to Mills?

a) The Socratic method of dialogue

b) A pattern of socially and psychologically functional cognitive dysfunctions

c) A branch of Kant's critique of pure reason

d) Anti-intellectual discourse in the US

2. To whom does Mills attribute the idea that the moral contract constrains the political contract?

a) Hobbes

b) Aquinas

c) Locke

d) Mill

3. Whose work does Mills cite when arguing that wealth, more than income, makes racial equality more achieveable?

a) Harris

b) Oliver and Shapiro

c) Williams

d) Harmand

4. What was so "absurd" about the Requierimiento given to Native Americans by Spanish colonizers, according to Mills?

a) It demanded consent in a language Native Americans could not understand

b) It was never written down, so it was different each time

c) It was poorly translated into Indigenous languages and therefore meaningless

d) It took hours to read out loud in its entirety

5. Which sentence best captures the general thesis of Harris' paper?

a) The amalgamation of various European strains into an American identity was facilitated by an oppositional definition of Black as "other."

b) Only particular forms of possession - those that were characteristic of white settlement - would be recognized and legitimated.

c) Notwithstanding the purported benefits of Black heritage in an era of affirmative action, passing is not an obsolete phenomenon that has slipped into history.

d) Through this entangled relationship of race and property, historical forms of domination have evolved to reproduce subordination in the present.

6. What does Harris propose as a "way out" of the conundrum of whiteness as property?

a) Media representation of Black and Native American people

b) Affirmative action policies

c) Charitable donations to activist groups

d) Investment in law enforcement

7. According to Harris, who cites the work of W.E.B. Dubois, what effect did racial exclusion and subjugation have on white workers during the period of reconstruction?

a) It outraged them and brought them into solidarity with Black people

b) It undermined their faith in liberal republicanism

c) It prevented them from confronting their own class exploitation

d) It awakened them to their own exploitation

8. In what way did the Reperesentation Clause of the Constitution exemplify the contradictory character of slavery, according to Harris?

a) It allowed slaves to vote, but not women

b) It considered slaves both property and part of the population

c) It guaranteed freedom for slaves with property even though they could not acquire property

d) It granted educated slaves the right to run for office, despite the fact that slaves were not permitted to attend school

9. What is the title of the collection of papers written by the National Economic Association in the 1980s and cited by Mills?

a) The Racial Contract

b) Black Reconstruction in America

c) The Wealth of Nations

d) The Wealth of Races

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