African-American Philosophy Quiz 5
1. According to Cornel West, black anti-Semitism rests on two basic pillars.
a) True.
b) False.
2. According to Cornel West, recent debates on the state of black-Jewish relations have:
a) generated enlightenment.
b) generated more light than heat.
c) generated critical dialogue.
d) improved black-Jewish relations.
e) done none of the above.
3. Which of these is not one of Cornel West's claims?
a) Everyone knows that it is virtually impossible to talk candidly about race without talking about sex.
b) The major cultural impact of the 1960s was to make black bodies more accessible to white bodies on an equal basis.
c) Much of black self-hatred and self-contempt has to do with the refusal of many black Americans to love their own bodies.
d) Americans are obsessed with black women, but fearful of black men.
e) None of the above.
4. Part of Cornel West's thesis is:
a) that black sexuality is a taboo subject in white America but not in black America.
b) that black sexuality is a taboo subject in black America but not in white America.
c) that black sexuality is a taboo subject in neither white America nor black America.
d) that black sexuality is not a taboo subject in white as well as black America.
e) none of the above.