Exam 4: Contemporary Racial Framing: White Americans

By the 1960s publicly expressed support for legal racial segregation was declining.

When teachers and other important adults accent a colorblind or color-mute approach to racial matters, does it typically have a significant effect on children? Explain.

In research projects where whites have been shown black faces, even for milliseconds, key areas of their brains that respond to perceived threats have tended to light up automatically under brain scans.

In terms of the white racial frame, describe research that has found a strong association in some white minds of ape images with images of black Americans.

In recent decades, opinion surveys of whites indicate that most publicly support, when given abstract questions, equality of opportunity and equality of treatment.

What significance do Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey give to the death in late 2017 of the 100-year-old daughter of an enslaved black man?

Most racial stereotyping and prejudice portray racialized others negatively but do not imbed a learned predisposition to act in a negative way toward racialized others.

Describe why longitudinal data is deceptive in terms of the reported reduction among whites of certain blatantly racist attitudes.

A recent experimental study found that a hypothetical politician who makes offensive racist comments in a tweet, but frames it as challenging "political correctness," was less likely to be criticized by the research subjects for the offensive racist comment.

Racist ways of thinking and feeling can be conscious and directly stimulate discriminatory action, but are never unconscious and implicit in that damaging action.