Exam 3: The White Racial Frame- a Social Force

A recent study showed that the level of public anti-black views in a state - and especially in white Republican-controlled states - was related to state legislators' efforts to force recipients of public assistance to undergo drug testing.

What is the racialization of culture?

Describe how by the late 1700s, hierarchical racial relations were increasingly explained in overtly bio-racial terms.

In spite of his pathbreaking idea of human evolution, he was unable to escape the white-racist framing then common among European scientists.

Darker skin color was later on taken by whites as the visible badge of enslavement.

In recent decades the powerful white elite has continued to dominate the construction and transmission of new or refurbished racist ideas, images, and narratives designed to buttress the system of racial inequality, including through the mass media. Discuss.

___________ is the view that black Americans have done less well than white Americans because of an allegedly deficient culture with its weak work ethic and family values.

From the first century of colonization, white Europeans have portrayed themselves as, to use Ronald Takaki's phrase, ___________.

In the ________, one survey found that 50 percent of physical anthropologists and 73 percent of animal behaviorists believed there were biologically differentiated "races" within the species Homo sapiens.

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "White scholars and popular analysts who continue to make ill-informed, biologically oriented arguments about "IQ" and racial groups do not recognize that they are thinking out of an uncritical white frame of reference. They write as though there is no other way to view the group data on these conventional skills tests (inaccurately named "intelligence" tests), usually of children, other than their racist framing of the supposedly lesser intelligence of children of color." Explain further how ill-informed these arguments are.

Describe the 1800s eugenics movement. Be sure to discuss the views of Francis Galton and Nathaniel S. Shaler.

__________ was a supporter of exporting African Americans back to Africa, should they become free.

The Dred Scott decision revealed that all black Americans, whether slave or technically "free," were inferior racialized beings with no rights, and white supremacy was asserted to be part of the law of the land.

Focusing on the 1830s to the early 1900s, and European immigrants, discuss how ordinary whites have come to look at their social worlds in white-racist terms and accepted the "psychological wage of whiteness" and racist ideas propagated by those in the white elite.

Describe the influential book titled, The Rising Tide of Color: Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard.

Before he became president, Abraham Lincoln had argued that the physical difference between racial groups was insurmountable.

Describe how from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, leading scientists developed a scientific view of black Americans and other people of color as innately inferior and thus deserving of subordination.

The major Western philosopher of the late eighteenth century, __________, produced the first developed theory of "race" in modern terms.

Discuss the important aspect of the contemporary white racial frame that buttresses systemic racism in the U.S. - that is, the omnipresent notion of white innocence and white virtue.

Explain how the controlling language in the new nation was that of English colonists and what this meant to early color coding.