Exam 4: Contemporary Racial Framing: White Americans

One major 1990s poll found that the majority of those questioned thought that most welfare recipients were black.

According to 1930s and 1940s national opinion surveys cited by Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, there was then all the following EXCEPT:

Explain how Brittany Slatton's findings are related to social alexithymia.

Recent surveys of undergraduates show that they still disproportionately connect images of black women to all the following negative stereotypes EXCEPT:

A majority of Americans live in racially segregated communities, and African Americans are by far the most racially segregated.

Scholar Mark Anthony Neal argues that The Cosby Show (1984-1992) masked the realities of the 1980s Ronald Reagan administration's reactionary policies, writing: "In effect, the Huxtable family was posited as the 'model' black family, overriding the legitimate criticisms of Reagan-era attacks on social policies that were enacted to address social inequities the show helped obscure." Describe at least one contemporary television show or television episode that obscures social inequities as The Cosby Show did.

Describe Seth Stephens-Davidowitz's study of whites' backstage views.

__________ has noted that historically one white male goal in extreme racist stereotyping of black men has been to keep white women from being sexually interested in them.

When given more time to express their views than a typical survey might allow, a majority of contemporary whites frequently reveal significant hedging or outright resistance to intermarriage within their families.

_________ after Donald Trump's 2016 presidential electoral victory, the Southern Poverty Law Center counted more than 400 hate-driven incidents, including 136 targeting immigrants, 89 targeting black people, and 43 targeting LGBTQ people.

Discuss President Barack Obama's comments to the press following the not-guilty jury verdict for a man who killed an unarmed black teenager (Trayvon Martin) walking in a predominantly white neighborhood where his father lived. How did conservative white commentators respond to Obama's comments?

Describe the pathbreaking study by Brittany Slatton that illustrates a negative racial framing of black women.

In the decades before the Civil War, all but one of the following elite white men attended whites-in-blackface minstrel shows.

One major 1990s poll found that the majority of those questioned thought that most poor Americans were black.

Framing black Americans in negative terms and framing whites in positive terms constitutes the way a majority of ordinary whites regularly communicate with each other about racial matters.

Discuss the role of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter as a conduit for the white racial frame.

What impact, if any, does the mainstream media have on welfare and poverty stereotypes?

Social psychologists have found that, when given a test of subtle or unconscious racial stereotyping such as the Implicit Association Test (IAT), most whites quickly associate black faces (photos) with negative words and traits (for instance, with evil character traits or failure).

Pew Center surveys have found that most black respondents report widespread racial discrimination in major institutions. In one major survey:

Of the more than 200,000 people incarcerated in state prisons for drug offenses in a recent year, 45 percent were black, as opposed to 30 percent who were white.