Question 1

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.

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Question 2

Describe how people with strong stereotypes of an out-group often describe negative and positive behavior by individual members of the out-group.

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Question 3

Racism plays out somewhat differently for key gender groups within the African American population. Drawing on images of black women and what scholars call intersectionality, explain.

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Question 4

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

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Question 5

Drawing on the "welfare queen" as enduring white mythology, explain how the white racial frame operates, especially how it buttresses the image of white virtue and privilege.

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Question 6

How have post-1990s congressional welfare reforms been influenced by the enduring white mythology of the "welfare queen" and other gendered-racist framing?

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

You and a fellow student are discussing "family values." He tells you that black adults have different family values to whites. Explain to him that the central difficulty for many black families lies not in their values but in the difficult economic and other social circumstances this racist society constantly creates for them.

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Question 9

Gendered racism is regularly inscribed in the bodies of black women, including the imaging of black women as "jungle bunnies." Describe how white notions of blackness have frequently been loaded with sexuality.

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Question 10

Describe how the dominant societal preferences for female body type are racialized in a manner that is usually biased against black women and how this dominant gendered-racist imagery generates resistance.

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Question 11

Describe the work of Adia Wingfield and Kamesha Spates are counter-resistance to white racially framing of black women.

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Question 12

Describe sociologist Louwanda Evans's interviews with pilots at major airlines as an example of racial-gender intersectionality.

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Question 13

Explain the white-racist stereotype and imagery of the "dangerous" black man in terms of the following elements of the white racial frame:
i. beliefs aspect (racial stereotypes and ideologies)
ii. integrating cognitive elements (racial interpretations and narratives)
iii. visual and auditory elements (racialized images and language accents)
iv. "feelings" aspect (racialized emotions)
v. inclination to action (to discriminate)
vi. strong positive orientation to whites and whiteness (the pro-white subframe)
vii. the strong negative orientation to racial "others" who are exploited and oppressed (anti-others subframes)

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Question 14

Explain Tommy Curry's argument about white patriarchal societies and in-group, out-group dynamics.

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Question 15

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?

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Question 16

You and a fellow student are discussing black male protests against policing racism. She tells you that white defensive actions to even the presence of black men is "rational" because of the official black crime rate. Explain to her why her argument is part of white racial framing and incredibly flawed.

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Question 17

What impact, if any, does the mainstream media have on white's fearfulness of black men and other negative images of black men and black women?

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Question 18

Discuss various studies of news media coverage of African Americans and crime, including racial differentials in local and national media reporting.

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Question 19

Commonly, a majority of whites have estimated that black Americans make up at least 30 percent of the U.S. population, nearly two-and-a-half times their actual percentage. Explain the significance of white survey respondents' substantial overestimation of the size and proportion of the black population.

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Question 20

Explain the creation and reinforcement of old anti-black stereotypes and imagery from the dominant white racial frame in terms of media cultivation theory.

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Quiz 4: Contemporary Racial Framing: White Americans