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

A major reason why the median wealth of white families is much higher than that of black (and Latino) families is because of housing equities that a majority of whites have built up over generations of discrimination limiting black and Latino access to buying houses.

White families have paid a high price for residential and neighbourhood segregation, including:

Some decades back, Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish social scientist, and his U.S. colleagues, representing the small liberal wing of the U.S. elite, argued that whites were under the spell of the ______________.

Some decades back, Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish social scientist, and his U.S. colleagues conducted a major study of Jim Crow segregation, reported in the influential 1944 book titled, ______________.

African Americans average significantly shorter lives than white Americans, which has been true for centuries.

Citing new research by sociologists Richard Zweigenhaft and Bill Domhof, one journalist summarized their data to include which of the following?

The scholar Thomas Craemer calculated a second compensation estimate for the hours worked by enslaved black men, women, and children from 1776 (the Declaration of Independence) to 1865 (the official end to slavery) for all 24 hours of the day to be _____.

Discuss how white Americans, on the whole, have had much greater access to good educational programs than have black Americans.

What did Nancy DiTomaso conclude about the persisting opposition by most whites to affirmative action for people of color?

In much recent research, many black Americans have indicated that they still feel like _____________ in the United States.

A great American myth portrays the U.S. as a ______________, in which people from different nations, ethnicities, and cultures come together.

How has the psychological wage of white superiority harmed whites?

Most white American feminist leaders of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries:

Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 election was essentially due to working-class whites' anger over government programs that purportedly improve the economic conditions of workers of color at their expense.

A recent United Nations panel recommended wide-ranging U.S. black reparations for:

Recent surveys indicate that many whites believe that discrimination against people of color has increased dramatically.

Please identify the FALSE statement.

A majority of white female voters:

Explain how in creating an undemocratic society where barbaric violence against African Americans was enshrined in many laws, whites lost some liberty as well.

Describe how millions of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe benefited greatly from anti-black discrimination during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.