Consider This 1930s Quotation from George Bernard Shaw, the British

question 19

Multiple Choice

Consider this 1930s quotation from George Bernard Shaw, the British playwright and author: "The haughty American nation … makes the Negro clean its boots, and then proves the … inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack." Shaw's statement describes the concept of:

• A)ethnocentrism.
• B)race.
• C)the self-fulfilling prophecy.
• D)racism.

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