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True or False:  You do not need to have a mentor to complete your VTS in dentistry.

Studies have found that boys diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder have decreased white matter connectivity when compared to same age, typically developing boys 

_______ is a term used to describe recent, conservative attempts to manage or erase histories, literatures, and experiences of people of color from K-20 school curricula and libraries.  This same term has been used to criticize the practice in U.S. film  of casting White male and female actors in the roles of characters of color. 

Research indicates that children may demonstrate early signs that may lead to a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder.  These signs include:  

The course film People Like Us offered “tribes” as a metaphor to illustrate how internally complex and diverse each major social class category of upper, middle, and lower class is. The contemporary marketing company, Prizm, also complexifies our understandings of social classes by dividing the U.S. into  ________

When Janus exercise author Evelyn Alsultany writes about Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves, she is describing her lived experience of _______________.

According to Dr. James, __________was a former website that had offered guidelines or recommendations on how to communicate more effectively with people of diverse backgrounds in the professional workplace (cf. “What Not to Say”). She surmised this website was a casuality of the most recent rounds of culture wars that attack “DEI” in schools and the workplace.  

According to former DiversityInc”s prescriptive advice,  what is something you SHOULD do when communicating with a LGBTQ colleague or  co-worker in the workplace?

Recent controversies over the use of race-related language and images include the rebranding U.S. commerical products that used visual representations of enslaved Africans and Black servants on packaging; the removal of Confederate flags and statues from public spaces; and  _______________.

____________ was discussed in your readings as program of research in the 1920s developed by U.S. “race scientist” to improve the human race by breeding the what they believed to be the superior Whites races (Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon).  The course film, Race, Power of an Illusion futher argued that during World War II, the Nazi’s used this U.S. research to justify their attempts to exterminate the Jews, disabled persons, and other minority groups.