Exam 5: Racial Oppression Today: Everyday Practice

Discuss how the white framing of black Americans and some other people of color as especially criminal regularly results in differential policing, unfair and often deadly punishments for similar crimes, and false convictions of the innocent for major crimes.

Discuss why articulated white racist views and the behavior they generate are not adequately explained by examining individual stereotyping and individual bias targeting racial others.

Discuss the work of sociologist Jessie Daniels, including her findings on cloaked websites that seek to disguise racist propaganda.

The often unnecessary police-frisking incidents in black areas garnered fewer productive results than those in white neighborhoods.

Analysis of black community "riots" for the years 1943-1972 indicates that the immediate precipitating event of many community uprisings was the killing or harassment of black urbanites by white officers.

The impacts of past discrimination in any U.S. city, as empirical evidence repeatedly demonstrates, are typically major, evident, and anything but amorphous. But Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the plurality in City of Richmond, Virginia v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989) did not see it that way, did she? Explain her view.

MIT researchers sent applications to a selection of job ads. Using fictitious names that sound (particularly to whites) like typically white or black names, their findings included all the following EXCEPT:

Describe the crime that took place in 2007 in West Virginia involving a black woman and six whites.

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when considered for promotions because they are black.

A disturbing array of blocking strategies used by white officials to reduce black and Latino representation or voting, includes which of the following?

Explain how when beneficiaries of white supremacy are touted as resisters to political correctness, it allows white nationalists to frame their recourse to fascist iconography, militia vigilantism, hate speech, and provocation to violence and terrorization as acts of self-defence and as a crusade to protect "free speech" for all.

In a Pew national survey, ___ percent of black respondents indicated on a general question that black Americans still faced a lot of discrimination, while just ___ percent of the whites in the survey agreed.

Who was James Byrd, Jr.?

White supremacy and its historical legacy in the U.S. remains too often unidentified or concealed behind the blanket phrases "hate speech" or "hate groups." Consequently, conversations are easily deflected away from the voices of people of color and towards immaterial conversations about "free speech," with the result of allowing white nationalists to claim victimhood and dominate public debate. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Nationally, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently counted 917 known hate groups operating actively across the U.S., a great many of them:

Illustrate with examples John Calmore's words: "[T]he unconscious failure [of whites] to extend to a [racial] minority the same recognition of humanity, and hence the same sympathy and care, given as a matter of course to one's own group."

Social science research on free-speech claims have found all the following EXCEPT:

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when applying for jobs because they are black.

Sociologist Jessie Daniels has documented several forms of racist- right and other hate-speech websites on the internet, including all the following EXCEPT:

Until the 1960s, most efforts aimed at reducing the number of voters of color were by operatives connected to the Republican Party.