Exam 5: Racial Oppression Today: Everyday Practice

Was anti-black violence in the U.S. used as a model by oppressive regimes in South Africa and Germany? Explain.

Discuss what Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey mean when they write: "In recent years, major leaders in the Republican Party seem to have decided that the party should become primarily for whites, with mostly token appeals to Americans of color."

Discuss the role of Americans of color in Democratic Party deliberations, elections, and policies.

Sociologist Jessie Daniels suggests that the U.S. populace and their leaders need to be more richly informed about the way that _______ and the tech industry are shaped by the everyday practices of color-blind racism.

Pressure from the U.S. Sentencing Commission have failed to get Congress to officially recognize the racial differentials between crack and powder cocaine convictions.

A little less than half of African Americans say they or a family member have been treated unfairly by the court system because they are black.

Researchers have found evidence that racial bias in the bail bonding system is driven by bail judges relying on inaccurate stereotypes that exaggerate the relative danger of releasing black defendants.

Racially negative encounters African Americans reported facing several times a year, included:

Discuss the similarities between the aggressive white-racist framing of Barack Obama by participants in Republican Party campaigns, the Tea Party, and white supremacist groups.

Sociologist Jessie Daniels has detailed how much of the internet's operation is under the control of ________, who incorrectly proclaim false notions that the internet and its technology are "colorblind."

The U.S. government did not ratify the 1969 United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination until ______.

In recent elections, political operatives have mailed false information about voting qualifications to deter black and Latino voters.

Into the 1990s, white southerners serving proudly in the U.S. Congress had earlier been outspoken advocates of violence-enforced Jim Crow segregation.

A Guardian newspaper study analyzed all U.S. police killings for 2015 and found:

Compare how issues of racism are discussed in the mainstream media to the portrait of discriminatory practices that emerges from much social science research.

Since the early 2000s, top U.S. officials have participated in two important UN world conferences dealing with major racism issues, including issues of reparations for U.S. slavery.

In a 2007 decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority greatly weakened the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by deciding that the local school systems in Seattle and Louisville could not make use of any racial markers along with several other factors to increase the desegregation of de facto segregated high schools on a voluntary basis.

In a 2013 decision, the conservative Republican majority on the Supreme Court severely weakened the U.S. Voting Rights Act by, in effect, removing federal surveillance over political jurisdictions with histories of creating racist barriers for voters of color.