Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Critical race theorists point out that most of the population has little incentive to eradicate racism.
2. Critical race theorists point out that race is an objective, fixed reality.
3. According to split labor market theory, the bourgeoisie create tensions among working classes by paying Black workers lower wages than White workers.
4. Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond apply Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of capital to race to show the complexity of how race is constructed.
5. Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond show that people unthinkingly reproduce the racial field through what they call “projective agency.”


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

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