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

Gunnar Myrdal failed to fully understand that the problem of U.S. racism.

Social science research has shown that the current white-black differential in wealth is the result of differences in savings rates.

New Deal programs favored whites.

Explain the myth of the U.S. rainbow culture.

What is social alexithymia?

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur visiting the U.S. noted the prevalence of caricatured, racist narratives about the poor, particularly the notion that welfare recipients are scammers.

According to a 2016 Pew report, the median net worth of white households is many times greater than that of black households - with black households at only $15,500 and white households at $180,200.

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey contend that the dominance of elite white men in the corporate world is not likely to change in the near future. Citing new research by sociologists Richard Zweigenhaft and Bill Domhof explain why.

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

Your classmate and you are working on a paper about hip-hop music and black cultural achievements. He wants to argue that the respectful acknowledgment of black cultural achievements by whites is evidence that the white racial frame is not as powerful as it once was. Drawing on Chapter 7, enlighten him.

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur conducted an information gathering mission in California, Georgia, Puerto Rico, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. He noted:

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur visiting the U.S. noted that the undermining of democracy, assisted by overt disenfranchisement of felons, gerrymandering, and the imposition of unnecessary voter ID requirements, results in the deprivation of the poor, minorities, and other disfavored groups of their voting rights.

the latest Census Bureau data, the white poverty rate was ____ percent, as compared with a much higher Latino poverty rate of ____ percent.

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 $500,000 billion in current dollars.

Most white feminist leaders of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries held egalitarian views on race.

Since the nineteenth century, the years since public elementary and secondary schools were first created on a significant scale, they have been overtly or informally segregated along racial lines.

Monetary figures do not include the great pain and suffering inflicted, the physical abuse, or the many untimely deaths of countless African Americans throughout U.S. history. Discuss the massive non-economic damages that must figure into the ultimate social costs accounting for white oppression targeting African Americans.

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "[T]he most successful racial "quota" program in U.S. history appears to be the one that sees to it that well-off white men dominate exclusively or very disproportionately most major U.S. institutions." Drawing on data from Chapter 7, support this assertion.

The Urban Institute has estimated that over some years, black workers lost more than ________ annually because of persisting employment discrimination.

Powerful whites have conned much of the American white population into often thinking and speaking of "public schools" and "public spending" as "good" for whites and privatization or elimination of numerous government programs as "good" for whites.