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

To varying degrees African Americans benefited from relief programs of the Great Depression and postwar housing and veterans' programs.

Calculate in lives, the generally unrecognized price that systemic racism has demanded from whites.

Rarely have blacks been permitted to excel in entertainment.

How did the Federal Housing Administration's loan insurance and related programs enable millions of whites to buy their first homes?

Social science research has shown that the current white-black differential exists because black individuals typically inherit much less than whites.

The ________________ gave U.S. air routes to new companies, mainly those started by aviators trained during World War I.

A majority of white Americans believe past discrimination is a major factor in blacks' current lower than average wealth level.

A major reason why the median wealth of white families is much higher than that of black (and Latino) families is because of:

In the major 1968 Supreme Court case, __________________________, the famous progressive white Justice William O. Douglas argued that the true curse of racism is what it has done to the white man.

Whites growing up in heavily white suburban enclaves have impressive skills in relating to or communicating with minorities.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, white European newcomers were able to move up the economic ladder because:

In its early stages after the 1960s civil rights movement, ____________ emerged substantially as protest music and commentary, as resistance against a racist society.

Explain why reverse discrimination and anti-white bias are fictions.

Several studies have shown that whites who live mostly segregated lives:

_____________ is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group.

In recent years, some analysts have tried to counter arguments that racism is still systemic with the contention that the U.S. now has a __________.

Researcher Randolph Hohle has shown that since the 1960s civil rights movement, elite whites have joined a traditional white racial framing of black Americans with: