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

Given overwhelming evidence that major tax cuts very disproportionately benefit elite whites, and usually do not generate much job growth or other economic benefits for ordinary workers, the majority of the white working and middle classes no longer support oligopoly capitalists and their political candidates.

There is concrete evidence of significant anti-white discrimination in U.S. employment.

Describe the consequences of being in the dominant position in an unjust, hierarchical system of societal racism.

Your classmate and you are working on a paper titled, "The Many Costs of Racial Oppression." Interestingly, your classmate argues that black Americans are now at least roughly equal to white Americans when it comes to most financial and other measures. Clearly, she does not see the many barriers and costs of racism faced today by black Americans. Drawing on Chapters 4 and 7, please enlighten her.

Describe the history of undeserved impoverishment for blacks and undeserved advantages for whites, which began at a very early point in U.S. history.

Societal statistics support the notion of widespread discrimination affecting white men.

Describe Claude Steele's research on the stereotype threat.

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for ongoing political disenfranchisement, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Stephen DeCanio's economic model suggests that African Americans who had no significant material property because of slavery, and who were emancipated without the promised arable land, were collectively fated to endure major long-term economic inequality compared to whites:

White mainstream media analysts seldom report the enduring impacts of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, or contemporary racial discrimination, as roots cause for racial inequality.

The period of active school desegregation was brief and resegregation is increasingly the trend

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

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for enduring U.S. poverty, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Describe racial battle fatigue.

Reflecting on earlier centuries, legal scholar Patricia Williams concluded that black enslavement included even the lost of the power to procreate in the image of oneself and not that of an alien master.

Blacks in decisionmaking positions, such as heads of powerful media corporations, generally control the way in which much black music and other entertainment elements move into the white-dominated culture.

Discuss the argument of scholars like economist William Darity, who believe "the basis for reparations is slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination and racism in the United States."

Researchers asked groups of white college students to write an essay about the ways in which they had been privileged or had been disadvantaged because they were white. Which of the following did the researchers find?

In recent decades, U.S. Census data have revealed the median family income of black families to be consistently in the range of ______ percent of the median family income of white families.

Sociologist Thomas Shapiro has called intergenerational racial inequality _______________.