Exam 6: More Racial Oppression: Other Institutional Sectors

The main reason for low percentages of black employees in advertising and many other employment settings is persistent unwillingness by mainstream advertising agencies to hire, assign, advance, and retain already-available black talent.

Black residents are less likely to cross racial-territorial boundaries of towns and cities than white residents.

Researchers who examined data for 245 employees in several workplaces, found:

Census data and social science surveys of hundreds of workers in a wide array of occupational groups in the largest U.S. municipalities reveal that racial bias in job recruiting adversely impacts job opportunities for workers of color, even when all the following EXCEPT ______________ is considered.

A major 2018 study by the Center for Investigative Reporting searched 31 million loan records in 61 metropolitan areas and found:

One important social science study asked 800 adults in the Chicago area to describe their image of a racially ideal community. Which of the following did the social science researchers not find?

In 2017-2018 alone, many predominantly white campuses experienced a great array of racist incidents and events, including:

Due to the numerous obstacles that many black children and other children of color face in getting equal and first-rate K-12 educational opportunities, their educational achievements have been insignificant.

A survey of 366 professionals of color who had gone through the National Urban Fellows leadership program reported various kinds of discrimination, including all the following EXCEPT:

Today, Latino and Asian American populations whites within the suburban belts around cities are significantly less segregated from whites compared to a few decades ago.

Black women in corporate America often have fraught relationships with white women, who tend to take the lead on issues of women and diversity.

Researchers at the Urban Institute have estimated that black workers today lose more than ________ in wages each year because of the overt and subtle employment discrimination they face, dollars that substantially remain in employers' hands.

Your friend cites the 1968 Civil Rights Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to argue that lending discrimination is a relic of the past. Drawing on information in Chapter 6, explain to your friend that he is mistaken.

Black athletes face all the following EXCEPT:

Most complaints of harassment filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), including such things as racist slurs, blocked access to job resources, and physical threats, have been filed by ____________ workers.

Discuss the white-male dominated government's role in maintaining residential segregation via continuing discrimination in public services, including poorly funded schools imposed on communities of color.

Environmental racism is a very new issue.

Highly segregated schools generally have ____________ than predominantly white schools.

A friend of yours is taking a business course at the local college. She is writing a paper about the low percentage of black employees in advertising. Her main argument is that private and public sector employers cannot find enough "qualified" employees of color. Help her with her presentation by (1) explaining to her the main reason for these low percentages and (2) introducing her to studies that have assessed the discrimination faced by black employees and other employees of color in various workplaces.

A Harvard study examined the connection between explicit and unconscious racial bias of 287 Boston and Atlanta physicians and their thrombolysis recommendations for white and black patients.