UCI Pound of Flesh Exacted for The Right to Be Excluded from The Excluded Film Ques Baldwin Tries to Help White People Walk Away From DIRECTIONS: Complete

UCI Pound of Flesh Exacted for The Right to Be Excluded from The Excluded Film Ques Baldwin Tries to Help White People Walk Away From
DIRECTIONS: Complete the following.

Baldwin is trying to help white people especially walk away from the following things–translate the quotation in your own words and use an example from the film I Am Not Your Negro to illustrate your answer:

Question 1?“the pound of flesh exacted for the right to be excluded from the excluded” (Thandeka 1999, 8) 1point

Question 2?“impulses to moral action [that have] been slain by fear of racial exile” (Thandeka 1999, 9) 1point

Question 3?A community that attacks/shuns until white people develop the appropriate racially nepotistic racial identity (Thandeka 1999, Royster 2003) 1point

Question 4?Submit to “racial pecking order” (Robinson 1983, Thandeka 1999) 1point

Question 5?Submit to feigned ignorance—pretend to “not see” (abuse of black people) even when you do see it (Robinson 1983, Lipsitz 1998, Mills 1998, Mills 1999, Thandeka 1999, Jordan 2002) 1point

Question 6?“ethnic semi-whites” attack Black and white student protests not because of false consciousness but because protestors’ reveal their shame about not being white enough (Sennett and Cobb) 1point

Question 7?“psychological allegiance to the elite through abuse: the right to abuse those below them and a constraint on the abuse meted out by those above [the white poor and the white working class]” (Thandeka 45-46) 1point

Question 8?White shame is often masked by “white pride” 1point

Baldwin’s Critique of White Intransigence

Answer this question.

Identify one scene from the film and describe it in your own words. Use  the concept of “white intransigence” to explain the scene you have chosen.  5point