Exam 7: White Privileges and Black Burdens: Still Systemic Racism

___________ occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unfair.

U.S. society has regularly been dubbed a melting pot - a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous. In recent years, U.S. society has been alternatively dubbed a "tossed salad" and "tomato soup." Based on Chapter 7, what metaphor do you think best describes the U.S.?

Recently, the National Urban League issued a State of Black America report that summarized the general state of contemporary black America across several institutional areas, including:

Describe the legal principle of unjust enrichment.

__________ is a term that suggests that many whites accept music (e.g., jazz and rap) and other entertainment that has emerged from African American communities.

Today, white students' access to first-rate college programs is still significantly greater than black students' access to first-rate college programs.

Residential segregation and residence/job mismatch have been shown in some cases to negatively affect overall metropolitan economic growth.

There is usually no sustained attempt by the mainstream media to understand the role of systemic racism in generating racial inequality.

Before and after the Civil War, ordinary whites paid a heavy political price for systemic racism. Explain how southern states still reflect this heritage.

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur reviewed the U.S. government's compliance with international human rights law, he underscored the striking disparity between the way that the bottom fifth of the population lives as compared with the more affluent part of the country.

In a 2017 national survey, only 29 percent of white respondents agreed that past racial discrimination is a major factor in blacks' current lower average wealth level. In contrast, 62 percent of black respondents felt that it is.

Residential segregation and ____________ have been shown in some cases to negatively affect overall metropolitan economic growth.

Explain why inequality in agricultural land was a major cause of persisting racial inequalities after the Civil War.

Discuss how white isolation, in the near future, will be an even greater liability.

The latest Forbes study of the wealthiest 400 Americans found all the following EXCEPT:

After decades of moderate affirmative action efforts for Americans of color and white women, the overwhelming majority of those who run most of the more powerful political, economic, and legal organizations in society are white men.

The scholar Thomas Craemer calculated the hours worked by enslaved black men, women, and children from 1776 (the Declaration of Independence) to 1865 (the official end to slavery). Describe his findings.

Elements of the white racial frame are embraced by powerful white women, and in their important positions in major institutions they too regularly reinforce contemporary patterns of systemic racism. A good example of this supportive role can be seen in presidential elections since the 1950s. Explain.

Economic inequality data sometimes appear in the mainstream media and there is usually a sustained attempt to understand the role of systemic racism in generating that racial inequality.

Systemic racism ensures whites _________ than people of color.