Question 1

Discuss incidents of elite whites combatting the counter-framed insights and actions of slave rebellions, abolitionist movements, and civil rights movements.

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Question 2

Describe the impact of nineteenth century French diplomat and prominent racist thinker, Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, on the U.S. and Nazi Germany.

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Question 3

In the United States, distinguished lawyers, judges, and political leaders promoted scientific racism and its white-supremacist assumptions. In the first half of the nineteenth century whites with an economic interest in slavery dominated the U.S. political and legal system. Explain how this influence was conspicuous in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford (1857) decision.

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Question 4

With a focus on distinguished judges, including Supreme Court judges, explain how with the end of Reconstruction in 1877 came comprehensive Jim Crow segregation in the South and other areas. Be sure to include Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in your explanation.

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Question 5

Given increasing immigration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from non-European countries, white male government officials gave much attention to who was, or was not, "white." Explain how this focus is evocative of present-day white racial framing.

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Question 6

Describe Social Darwinism.

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Question 7

William Graham Sumner is considered a "founding father" of U.S. sociology. What does this tell us about how capitalism and its elites have shaped the dominant assumptions underlying sociology in North America and Europe?

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Question 8

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

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Question 9

Who was Madison Grant and what did he argue about new immigrant groups from southern and eastern Europe?

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Question 10

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

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Question 11

Discuss the parallels between Lothrop Stoddard's views and some white political leaders and commentators today.

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Question 12

Explain how scientific racism was periodically used by white members of Congress to support passage of discriminatory legislation.

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Question 13

Explain how Germany's Adolf Hitler was influenced by U.S. Jim Crow patterns.

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Question 14

Define teleological racism.

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Question 15

Explain Rudyard Kipling's perspective in his 1899 poem titled, "The White Man's Burden."

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Question 16

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.

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Question 17

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.

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Question 18

Compare and contrast reactions to citizen protests by the conservative wing of the white elite, the more liberal wing of the elite, and the center of the elite.

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Question 19

How do key members of the white elite encourage collective ignorance and mobilize a mass consensus on elite-generated ideas and views?

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Question 20

Discuss significant changes in whites' discriminatory practices and in the rationalizing white frame since the 1960s.

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Quiz 3: The White Racial Frame- a Social Force