Exam 6: More Racial Oppression: Other Institutional Sectors

In his study of the advertising industry, Christopher Boulton found few established white networks for securing employment.

In _______________, a conservative Supreme Court majority made it clear that they viewed largescale resegregation of public schools to be constitutional, so long as it was not done with overtly expressed racist motivation.

You are assigned a group presentation. Your group members want to focus on the development of small businesses in the so-called free-market system. The proposed title for your presentation is "Black Enterprise and Entrepreneurship." Explain to your group that this approach is ill-informed.

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?

Discuss why whites do not seem to view most racist joking, commentaries, and other routinized actions out of the dominant racial frame as morally wrong (i.e., such actions are often viewed as harmless and "no big deal," indeed often just good entertainment).

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

Numerous research studies show that in the hiring process, workers of color are less likely to obtain jobs than whites with equivalent credentials, including:

Studies of discrimination in restaurants revealed:

You are doing a presentation on persisting differences in educational achievement outcomes. Your fellow students suggest that lack of educational achievement amongst children of color is due to their unsupportive parents. With empirical evidence from Chapter 6, explain to your classmates that the overwhelming majority of black parents, and other parents of color, are strongly committed to better educations for their children.

A classmate argues that African Americans are segregated because they choose to be. She remarks, "Blacks prefer to live with their own kind." Drawing on information in Chapter 6, explain to her that she is mistaken.

Describe the study of first-generation students' financing of their college educations. What did it reveal about how different white and black (and Latino) students' pathways are?

Drawing on Chapter 6, discuss how contemporary urban and rural patterns of racial segregation in housing provide empirical evidence of the impact of large-scale discrimination by an array of white discriminators in the past and present.

Sociologists have demonstrated that some important statistical approaches developed by the social sciences have roots in early attempts to demonstrate white racial superiority, including in regard to college entrance tests.

The most recent U.S. black infant mortality rate of 10.9 deaths per 1000 live births is high for Western countries and more than twice the white infant mortality rate (4.9).

Recent research demonstrates that black college athletes generally face much economic exploitation and racial discrimination in their experiences.

A research study of advertising agencies, many of them part of large global firms, found that African Americans made up approximately _____ percent of all advertising managers and professionals.

Today, a majority of black women tend to be concentrated in:

In a survey of 366 professionals of color who had gone through the National Urban Fellows leadership program, a minority reported experiencing some type of racial, gender, or other discrimination.

Explain how the U.S. economy generally loses from (1) continuing residential segregation; (2) the spatial mismatch between jobs and residents; and (3) overseas investment strategies by mostly white capitalist employers.

Black players are ___________ of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college players.