Race and Racisms

According to chapters 5 & 6 of the textbook: Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach answer the following questions.

  1. What are some of the key differences between systematic racism and structural racism? Provide one example to justify your answer.
  2. Think of an issue related to racial inequality in the U.S.A and use one of the frameworks (biological racism, cultural racism, or color-blind racism) discussed on chapter 3 of the textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, to explain it.
  3. The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. African American men are seven times more likely than white men to go to prison. It is a reflection of cultural racism, systemic racism, or structural racism? Explain.
  4. What is color-blind racism, and how does it perpetuate inequality? What did the elections of Presidents Obama and Trump reveal about racial ideologies in the United States?
  5. Have you heard someone say, “racism is a thing of the past?” If that statement were to come up in conversation, what have you learned from this chapter that might help you counter the idea that racial inequality or racial discrimination has gone away? In what ways is the current era unique? What are some parallels today and one hundred years ago, and how far have we come as a country?