Question 1

Given overwhelming evidence that major tax cuts very disproportionately benefit elite whites, and usually do not generate much job growth or other economic benefits for ordinary workers, the majority of the white working and middle classes no longer support oligopoly capitalists and their political candidates.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

There is concrete evidence of significant anti-white discrimination in U.S. employment.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Describe the consequences of being in the dominant position in an unjust, hierarchical system of societal racism.

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Question 4

Your classmate and you are working on a paper titled, "The Many Costs of Racial Oppression." Interestingly, your classmate argues that black Americans are now at least roughly equal to white Americans when it comes to most financial and other measures. Clearly, she does not see the many barriers and costs of racism faced today by black Americans. Drawing on Chapters 4 and 7, please enlighten her.

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Question 5

Describe the history of undeserved impoverishment for blacks and undeserved advantages for whites, which began at a very early point in U.S. history.

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Question 6

Societal statistics support the notion of widespread discrimination affecting white men.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Describe Claude Steele's research on the stereotype threat.

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Question 8

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for ongoing political disenfranchisement, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Stephen DeCanio's economic model suggests that African Americans who had no significant material property because of slavery, and who were emancipated without the promised arable land, were collectively fated to endure major long-term economic inequality compared to whites:

Accepted Answer

A)  because the long-term impact of initial inequality in agricultural resources would prevent attainment of racial equality even if current discrimination ended and blacks and whites had identical tastes and preferences. 
B)  because not only were black families substantially excluded from wealth-generating homestead lands by law or violence, they were forced into racially segregated schools, workplaces, and residential areas. 
C)  because legal segregation in the South and de facto segregation in the North generally kept black families from generating the socioeconomic resources necessary to compete effectively with whites over many generations. 
D)  All the above

Question 10

White mainstream media analysts seldom report the enduring impacts of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, or contemporary racial discrimination, as roots cause for racial inequality.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The period of active school desegregation was brief and resegregation is increasingly the trend

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Examining data for the generation of Americans now entering retirement years, researchers have estimated that the average white baby-boom family will have earned _________ more than the average black baby-boom family over their respective lifetimes of work.

Accepted Answer

A)  $250,000 
B)  $350,000 
C)  $450,000 
D)  $550,000 
E)  $650,000

Question 13

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for enduring U.S. poverty, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Describe racial battle fatigue.

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Question 15

Reflecting on earlier centuries, legal scholar Patricia Williams concluded that black enslavement included even the lost of the power to procreate in the image of oneself and not that of an alien master.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Blacks in decisionmaking positions, such as heads of powerful media corporations, generally control the way in which much black music and other entertainment elements move into the white-dominated culture.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Discuss the argument of scholars like economist William Darity, who believe "the basis for reparations is slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination and racism in the United States."

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Question 18

Researchers asked groups of white college students to write an essay about the ways in which they had been privileged or had been disadvantaged because they were white. Which of the following did the researchers find?

Accepted Answer

A)  White respondents who wrote about their racial privileges later scored higher on a modern-racism scale with anti-black items than did those respondents who did not write about their racial privileges. 
B)  When whites had to consider racial privilege and inequality, most justified their privileged status by denying the existence of discrimination. 
C)  When whites had to consider racial privilege and inequality, most justified their privileged status by accenting the white racial frame's anti-black stereotypes. 
D)  All the above

Question 19

In recent decades, U.S. Census data have revealed the median family income of black families to be consistently in the range of ______ percent of the median family income of white families.

Accepted Answer

A)  33 to 42 
B)  40 to 51 
C)  55 to 62 
D)  60 to 68 
E)  69 to 81

Question 20

Sociologist Thomas Shapiro has called intergenerational racial inequality _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  noxious discrimination. 
B)  lethal disparity. 
C)  venomous prejudice. 
D)  mephitic dissimilarity. 
E)  toxic inequality.

Exam 7: White Privileges and Black Burdens: Still Systemic Racism

There is concrete evidence of significant anti-white discrimination in U.S. employment.

Describe the consequences of being in the dominant position in an unjust, hierarchical system of societal racism.

Describe the history of undeserved impoverishment for blacks and undeserved advantages for whites, which began at a very early point in U.S. history.

Societal statistics support the notion of widespread discrimination affecting white men.

Describe Claude Steele's research on the stereotype threat.

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for ongoing political disenfranchisement, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Stephen DeCanio's economic model suggests that African Americans who had no significant material property because of slavery, and who were emancipated without the promised arable land, were collectively fated to endure major long-term economic inequality compared to whites:

White mainstream media analysts seldom report the enduring impacts of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, or contemporary racial discrimination, as roots cause for racial inequality.

The period of active school desegregation was brief and resegregation is increasingly the trend

Examining data for the generation of Americans now entering retirement years, researchers have estimated that the average white baby-boom family will have earned _________ more than the average black baby-boom family over their respective lifetimes of work.

Recently, a United Nations special rapporteur condemned American leaders for enduring U.S. poverty, especially that faced by Americans of color.

Describe racial battle fatigue.

Reflecting on earlier centuries, legal scholar Patricia Williams concluded that black enslavement included even the lost of the power to procreate in the image of oneself and not that of an alien master.

Blacks in decisionmaking positions, such as heads of powerful media corporations, generally control the way in which much black music and other entertainment elements move into the white-dominated culture.

Discuss the argument of scholars like economist William Darity, who believe "the basis for reparations is slavery, Jim Crow, and ongoing discrimination and racism in the United States."

Researchers asked groups of white college students to write an essay about the ways in which they had been privileged or had been disadvantaged because they were white. Which of the following did the researchers find?

In recent decades, U.S. Census data have revealed the median family income of black families to be consistently in the range of ______ percent of the median family income of white families.

Sociologist Thomas Shapiro has called intergenerational racial inequality _______________.