Exam 6: More Racial Oppression: Other Institutional Sectors

Over the last ten years the number of race-based complaints filed annually with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been in the _________ range.

This term signals that white businesspeople are at least dimly aware of the non-meritocratic ways in which the vested interests of whites are commonly protected and extended to the disadvantage of businesspeople who are not white.

Generally speaking, white middle-class students have a better-resourced pre-college education, which gives them an edge in:

Racist stereotypes strongly affect white bonds to a residential space, how whites judge the space, and how willing whites are to move into the space. Describe research studies discussed in Chapter 6 that demonstrate that physical spaces associated with African Americans are typically the focus of whites' negative racial categorizations.

The use of _____________ has greatly changed the way we visualize, understand, and analyze racial bias within the United States and the globe.

For several decades numerous housing audit studies, using white and black testers (and sometimes Asian and Latino testers) have demonstrated that racial barriers in regard to rental housing and purchased housing are commonplace in metropolitan areas.

Gentrification is commonly described as the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. This common definition ignores the connection between gentrification and systemic racism. Explain the connection.

Housing segregation usually sets significant limits on the amount of school desegregation possible without substantial pupil transportation.

Describe sociologist Nancy DiTomaso's social network research, including what she refers to as opportunity hoarding and white favoritism. What patterns of institutionalized favoritism in specific job-seeking settings have other researchers found?

___________ describes the discriminatory practice of fencing off areas where banks would avoid investments based on community demographics.

In his study of the advertising industry, Christopher Boulton found little concern among whites doing the hiring about how a new employee might fit into existing white work groups.

In his study of the advertising industry, Christopher Boulton found much favoritism for white applicants and white employees.

A recent investigation by ProPublica and Consumer Reports of auto insurance premiums in Missouri, Texas, Illinois, and California found that certain leading insurers charge people of color in numerous neighborhoods on average, ________ percent more than white neighborhoods with a similar level of insurance risk.

African American employees who deem their racial work climate "negative," report all the following EXCEPT:

One recent study concluded that black and Latino urbanites, especially in more segregated larger cities, are much more likely than white urbanites there to:

Some phone and resume research studies have found applicants with "black-sounding" names are much more likely to be contacted about job openings by employers than those with "white-sounding" names.

A significant aspect of the Great Recession (2008-2010) involved white lending officials' discriminatory lending practices. Explain.

Currently, there are far more black sports editors at major news corporations than in the recent past.

Princeton University's Carl Brigham, who helped to develop early versions of today's college entrance tests, was an outspoken white supremacist.

Describe the ways in which African Americans and other Americans of color face difficulties in getting a good college education.