Question 1

Your classmate and you are working on a paper about hip-hop music and black cultural achievements. He wants to argue that the respectful acknowledgment of black cultural achievements by whites is evidence that the white racial frame is not as powerful as it once was. Drawing on Chapter 7, enlighten him.

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Question 2

Racism is constructed not just in racist framing in white minds, but also in the many concrete ways that whites interact with black men, women, and children. Explain.

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Question 3

Drawing on the words of the great scholar-activist Angela Y. Davis, as cited by Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey, describe how recurring discrimination can bring a significant psychological toll to African Americans and a countering response to preserve their personal self-worth.

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Question 4

Describe Claude Steele's research on the stereotype threat.

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Question 5

Describe racial battle fatigue.

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Question 6

What is the likely significant impact of everyday racism on various diseases faced by African Americans and how does systemic racism play a major role in these health inequalities?

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Question 7

Explain what Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey mean by: "[F]or many deceased African Americans, everyday racism could be listed on their death certificates as a major contributing cause of death."

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Question 8

Explain sociologist Rodney Coates's cage as metaphor for everyday racism.

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Question 9

Your friend believes that only minor racial discrimination exists today in the U.S. What's more, she believes that what remains is only a problem of individual bigots and is fleeting. Explain to her that this view is way off-mark.

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Question 10

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

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Question 11

Describe Gunnar Myrdal's study of Jim Crow segregation, reported in the influential 1944 book titled, An American Dilemma. Be sure to explain how Myrdal failed to fully understand that the problem of U.S. racism.

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Question 12

Calculate in lives, the generally unrecognized price that systemic racism has demanded from whites.

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Question 13

How has the psychological wage of white superiority harmed whites?

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Question 14

Explain how in creating an undemocratic society where barbaric violence against African Americans was enshrined in many laws, whites lost some liberty as well.

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Question 15

Before and after the Civil War, ordinary whites paid a heavy political price for systemic racism. Explain how southern states still reflect this heritage.

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Question 16

Today, white Americans and black Americans are substantially segregated in terms of residence and neighborhood. Describe the negative consequences for whites who have fled the central cities and moved to distant suburbs directly or indirectly for racist reasons.

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Question 17

Discuss how white isolation, in the near future, will be an even greater liability.

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