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

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

Until the 1950s, most colleges and universities - except historically black colleges - were all white or nearly so. In the 1960s this had changed quite a lot.

Using Joe Feagin's and Kimberley Ducey's example of a black person and a white person trying to set up a new business, illustrate the continuing impact of past racial oppression.

According to surveys, a majority of whites do not have much empathy for the suffering of black Americans and others who face contemporary racial discrimination.

Legal scholar Patricia Williams concludes that black enslavement meant losing all the following EXCEPT:

Whites have infrequently converted certain black culture into a commodity.

Today, U.S. Census data have revealed the median family income of black families to be ______ percent of the median family income of white families.

________________ is the process of cultural assimilation of racial, ethnic, and religious groups who are forced into an established and generally larger community.

Ellis Cashmore argues:

Throughout the 1930s, New Deal programs provided much important aid to white farmers, bankers, and business executives, enabling them to survive the Great Depression and to thrive during World War II and the postwar years.

Beyond U.S. borders, the black reparations movement has endured for decades. For instance, Caribbean heads of governments created the ___________________, whose directive has been to formulate a case for reparatory justice for that region's Indigenous and African descendants.

Historical and recent data indicate:

Explain why reparations to African Americans is not a fringe idea.

Examining data for the generation of Americans now entering retirement years, researchers have estimated that the average white baby-boom family will have earned $250,000 more than the average black baby-boom family over their respective lifetimes of work.

Unjust impoverishment and the struggle against racism for Americans of color is the flip side of the unjust enrichment and enhanced opportunities for whites coin. This recurring and widespread discrimination has many costs and consequences, not only economic costs but also psychological, physical, family, and community costs. Explain.

Explain why white workers seem unable to see deeply into the real sources of their class oppression under modern oligopoly capitalism. Benefits of Whiteness: A Brief Overview

Current Pew Research Center data based on the U.S. Census indicate that compared to white households, black households have ___________ median (adjusted) household income.

From the 1860s to the 1930s, the federal government - operating under the homestead acts - gave away millions of acres of government land for little or no cost to white and Afrcian American families.

Drawing on the words of the great scholar-activist Angela Y. Davis, as cited by Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, describe how recurring discrimination can bring a significant psychological toll to African Americans and a countering response to preserve their personal self-worth.

Describe Stephen DeCanio's economic model.