Question 1

Discuss how the white framing of black Americans and some other people of color as especially criminal regularly results in differential policing, unfair and often deadly punishments for similar crimes, and false convictions of the innocent for major crimes.

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Question 2

Discuss why articulated white racist views and the behavior they generate are not adequately explained by examining individual stereotyping and individual bias targeting racial others.

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Question 3

Discuss the work of sociologist Jessie Daniels, including her findings on cloaked websites that seek to disguise racist propaganda.

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Question 4

The often unnecessary police-frisking incidents in black areas garnered fewer productive results than those in white neighborhoods.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Analysis of black community "riots" for the years 1943-1972 indicates that the immediate precipitating event of many community uprisings was the killing or harassment of black urbanites by white officers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The impacts of past discrimination in any U.S. city, as empirical evidence repeatedly demonstrates, are typically major, evident, and anything but amorphous. But Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for the plurality in City of Richmond, Virginia v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989) did not see it that way, did she? Explain her view.

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Question 7

MIT researchers sent applications to a selection of job ads. Using fictitious names that sound (particularly to whites) like typically white or black names, their findings included all the following EXCEPT:

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A)  applicants with "white-sounding" names were 50 percent more likely to be contacted by employers than applicants with "black-sounding" names. 
B)  after increasing the job credentials of the tester-applicants, white applicants were far more likely to get call-backs from the presumably mostly white employers than black applicants. 
C)  being black with eight years of job experience was necessary to get the same treatment as a white applicant with no experience. 
D)  being black with three times the job credentials as whites had no impact on number of call-backs applicants with "black-sounding" names received.

Question 8

Describe the crime that took place in 2007 in West Virginia involving a black woman and six whites.

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Question 9

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when considered for promotions because they are black.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

A disturbing array of blocking strategies used by white officials to reduce black and Latino representation or voting, includes which of the following?

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A)  gerrymandering (i.e., manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency so as to favor one party or class) political districts. 
B)  changing elective offices into appointive offices. 
C)  adding new qualifications for office. 
D)  All the above

Question 11

Explain how when beneficiaries of white supremacy are touted as resisters to political correctness, it allows white nationalists to frame their recourse to fascist iconography, militia vigilantism, hate speech, and provocation to violence and terrorization as acts of self-defence and as a crusade to protect "free speech" for all.

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Question 12

In a Pew national survey, ___ percent of black respondents indicated on a general question that black Americans still faced a lot of discrimination, while just ___ percent of the whites in the survey agreed.

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A)  19; 7 
B)  21; 10 
C)  33; 11 
D)  43; 13 
E)  67; 21

Question 13

Who was James Byrd, Jr.?

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Question 14

White supremacy and its historical legacy in the U.S. remains too often unidentified or concealed behind the blanket phrases "hate speech" or "hate groups." Consequently, conversations are easily deflected away from the voices of people of color and towards immaterial conversations about "free speech," with the result of allowing white nationalists to claim victimhood and dominate public debate. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Question 15

Nationally, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently counted 917 known hate groups operating actively across the U.S., a great many of them:

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A)  Klan. 
B)  neo-Nazi. 
C)  racist skinhead. 
D)  border vigilante organizations. 
E)  All the above

Question 16

Illustrate with examples John Calmore's words: "[T]he unconscious failure [of whites] to extend to a [racial] minority the same recognition of humanity, and hence the same sympathy and care, given as a matter of course to one's own group."

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Question 17

Social science research on free-speech claims have found all the following EXCEPT:

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A)  free-speech claims are not mainly about a general constitutional principle but more of a convenient and legitimating cover for the expression of extreme white-racist framing. 
B)  participants high in racial prejudice were more likely to endorse a general free-speech defense for openly racist hate speech than individuals with much less personal prejudice. 
C)  those high in prejudice are more likely to cite a free speech defense for non-racist insulting speech than individuals low in prejudice. 
D)  those high in prejudice were not more likely to cite a free speech defense for non-racist insulting speech than individuals low in prejudice.

Question 18

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when applying for jobs because they are black.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Sociologist Jessie Daniels has documented several forms of racist- right and other hate-speech websites on the internet, including all the following EXCEPT:

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A)  a type showcasing racist propaganda for those outside the organization, including youth, such as Stormfront or The Daily Stormer 
B)  a type showcasing calls for a racial holy war and incitement to use violence to resist immigration 
C)  a type providing a hidden-from-public view form of communication for those within the movement

Question 20

Until the 1960s, most efforts aimed at reducing the number of voters of color were by operatives connected to the Republican Party.

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A) True 
 B)False

Exam 5: Racial Oppression Today: Everyday Practice

Discuss how the white framing of black Americans and some other people of color as especially criminal regularly results in differential policing, unfair and often deadly punishments for similar crimes, and false convictions of the innocent for major crimes.

Discuss why articulated white racist views and the behavior they generate are not adequately explained by examining individual stereotyping and individual bias targeting racial others.

Discuss the work of sociologist Jessie Daniels, including her findings on cloaked websites that seek to disguise racist propaganda.

The often unnecessary police-frisking incidents in black areas garnered fewer productive results than those in white neighborhoods.

Analysis of black community "riots" for the years 1943-1972 indicates that the immediate precipitating event of many community uprisings was the killing or harassment of black urbanites by white officers.

MIT researchers sent applications to a selection of job ads. Using fictitious names that sound (particularly to whites) like typically white or black names, their findings included all the following EXCEPT:

Describe the crime that took place in 2007 in West Virginia involving a black woman and six whites.

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when considered for promotions because they are black.

A disturbing array of blocking strategies used by white officials to reduce black and Latino representation or voting, includes which of the following?

In a Pew national survey, _ percent of black respondents indicated on a general question that black Americans still faced a lot of discrimination, while just _ percent of the whites in the survey agreed.

Who was James Byrd, Jr.?

Nationally, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently counted 917 known hate groups operating actively across the U.S., a great many of them:

Illustrate with examples John Calmore's words: "[T]he unconscious failure [of whites] to extend to a [racial] minority the same recognition of humanity, and hence the same sympathy and care, given as a matter of course to one's own group."

Social science research on free-speech claims have found all the following EXCEPT:

More than half of African Americans say that they have been personally discriminated against when applying for jobs because they are black.

Sociologist Jessie Daniels has documented several forms of racist- right and other hate-speech websites on the internet, including all the following EXCEPT:

Until the 1960s, most efforts aimed at reducing the number of voters of color were by operatives connected to the Republican Party.