Exam 6: More Racial Oppression: Other Institutional Sectors

In terms of the recruitment and treatment of black football, baseball, and basketball athletes by owners of major sports teams, what is the conveyor belt?

The ____________________ can be used as a measure of segregation.

What is a discriminatory impact standard?

The personal achievements of African American high school students have closed much of the racial gap at the high school level.

A recent report of the National Commission on Fair Housing found that federal and state laws banning racial discrimination in rental and sales housing are at best weakly enforced in many U.S. areas.

Describe how segregation patterns in education affects all Americans.

In 2018, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for black workers had dropped to 6.8 percent, but was still much higher than the 3.7 percent joblessness rate for white workers.

Define Geographical Information System (GIS).

Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright note that today the main government environmental protection approach:

Describe ways in which college entrance tests and similar diagnostic tests have often been designed, consciously or unconsciously, to measure the things that white middle-class people know or do well.

What impact does the white standard or white prototype have on persisting racial barriers in business?

Researchers found that white students and others who exhibited strong colorblind ("I don't see racism") racial views were the most likely to see the racist-themed party photos as problematical.

When it comes to discrimination in health care, a significant issue is the racial framing in the minds of white (or white-oriented) medical personnel. Explain.

Describe the impact that the George W. Bush administration had on racial barriers in education.

Explain the following statement: Professional sports are "not the bastion of racial equality popular accounts would suggest; instead, the overt racism reported in many previous examinations of sport may have 'gone underground.'"

Discuss the following statement: "[J]obs flow like an ethnoracial rainbow, perpetuating the makeup of an occupation, a workplace."

There are various political and bureaucratic mechanisms to implement white parents' racist goals, including racial steering and channeling of students. Explain.

You are assigned a group presentation. The topic: "Discrimination in employment." Your group members want to focus on high educational achievement, claiming that it guarantees an American Dream life of respect and achievement for all Americans. Drawing on major research studies cited in Chapter 6, explain to your group members that they are proceeding on a false assumption.

A representative survey of active-duty service members of the U.S. Army found all the following EXCEPT:

Your classmate argues that housing segregation is the result of "chance" or "free choice" pf African Americans. Drawing on data in Chapter 6, explain to her that segregation is a consequence of decades of concrete discriminatory actions by white real-estate agents, bankers, insurers, government officials, and families.