Exam 1: Systemic Racism-A Comprehensive Perspective

Large-scale action against the slavery system did not take place among non-blacks until the nineteenth century.

Known to Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, all prominent slaveholders among the founders, _____________ freed all 500 of the African Americans he enslaved; he had come to view slavery as "contrary to the principles of religion and justice."

Almost all government-subsidized home mortgages provided on a large scale to soldiers returning after World War II went to whites and their families.

Illustrate the white racial frame and its subframes by drawing on the diary of the white college student, called Trevor, at a midwestern college. In your illustration be sure to discuss how this brief account reveals a broad white racial framing of certain societal groups, numerous racial stereotypes and images signaling the inferiority of Americans of color, racialized images, and emotion-laden joking.

Slavery was only a minor matter at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

Compare the black intellectual and activist tradition's systemic view of U.S. racism to mainstream social science research.

The social process that reproduces systemic racism has contradictions. Explain.

What are the main forms of socioeconomic resources that are transmitted?

The openly racist provisions, although overridden by later constitutional amendments, have NOT been deleted from the U.S. Constitution.

At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a few of the elite white male delegates spoke critically of chattel slavery or the slave trade on the basis of political, not moral, grounds. Describe, for example, the protestations of George Mason and Elbridge Gerry.

The white male elite delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention:

At a gathering in Massachusetts on July 4, 1854, the eminent abolitionist _____________ burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, uttering the words: "So perish all compromises with tyranny."

Until the mid-to-late nineteenth century, Indigenous societies were mostly viewed as separate nations, with whites advocating for all the following EXCEPT:

Discuss how whites often described their own sociopolitical condition as one of actual or potential slavery.

Racism is a lived experience. Drawing on the interview with the black female dental assistant who describes a black child's experience, explain why when black people speak of being black, they typically do not speak in abstract concepts learned from books, but voice accounts of racialized encounters with whites.

Since the __________ century, a powerful white racial frame has provided the vantage point from which whites and others have regularly viewed and interpreted U.S. society.

Younger black Americans will be more likely than whites to backslide financially over their lifetimes.

Article 1 speaks only of three groups in the new nation. Which of the following is NOT one of those groups?

Joe Feagin and Kimberley Ducey write: "The combination of white freedom and black enslavement is radically contradictory." Explain.

Nowadays, many social scientists and popular analysts view racism as mainly about individual racial animus, biases, attitudes, and prejudices "directed at people because of their race." They focus on the micro-level of the bigoted individual. Explain why this common approach is far too individualistic, limited, and limiting.