The White Racial Frame: A Roundtable Discussion

Bracey, Glenn E.; Chambers, Christopher; Lavelle, Kristen M.; Mueller, Jennifer C.

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“…Scholars also reveal how often organizing and remediation address race‐based, gender‐based, or hetero‐normative issues independent from one another, eliding the unique vulnerability and harms suffered in the intersectional positionalities where “non‐normative” people of color exist (Crenshaw, ). Similarly, an ignorance lens can help make sense of common epistemic practices that unite seemingly diverse White racial projects (Bracey, Chambers, Lavelle, & Mueller, ; Hughey, ; Mueller, ). Consider, for example, how the idea of a psychic wage of whiteness (Du Bois, [1920]; Roediger, ) rests implicitly on one's capacity and willingness to ignore class and/or gender‐based exploitation and potentially useful interracial coalitions (Mueller, ).…”

Section: Promise In the Study Of Racism Racial Domination And Raciamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As opposed to the common emphasis on racial ideology, ignorance elevates epistemological continuities over time, thereby allowing racism scholars to avoid overstating the degree of ideological change (Henricks, ; Moore, ). This orientation also helps capture how remarkably stable White supremacy's basic relations of subordination and superordination are (Bracey et al, ; Seamster & Ray, forthcoming).…”

Section: Promise In the Study Of Racism Racial Domination And Raciamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Advancing a sociology of ignorance in the study of racism and racial non‐knowing

Mueller

2018

Sociology Compass

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By a wealth of indicators, ignorance appears a bona fide if often vexing social fact. Ignorance is socially constructed, negotiated, and pervasive; ignorance is often socially inevitable, even necessary; and, without a doubt, ignorance is socially consequential. Yet, despite its significance, ignorance has appeared a largely secondary concern among sociologists. Perhaps more perplexing, while sociologists of racism, power, and domination have long focused on the ways racial ideologies distort and mystify racial understanding to sustain White supremacy over time, we have done less to elaborate ignorance than is possible and warranted.Here, I join growing calls for a fully-fledged "sociology of ignorance" and argue that antiracist and decolonial scholars have much to gain from and contribute to such an endeavor. This article traces the historical forebears of a "sociology of ignorance" and explores ignorance as a social concept before turning to examine precedents and increasing attention to ignorance scholarship on racism, racial domination, and racialized non-knowing. Drawing from this work, I urge race-critical scholars take advantage of our unique position to advance theory and methodology surrounding ignorance and the social-cultural production of non-knowledge as a broader area of social inquiry.

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Section: Promise In the Study Of Racism Racial Domination And Raciamentioning

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Section: Promise In the Study Of Racism Racial Domination And Raciamentioning

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Advancing a sociology of ignorance in the study of racism and racial non‐knowing

Mueller

2018

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“…With regard to how the frame operates and at what levels, Feagin (2013) observes that the old WRF with some contemporary alterations remains powerful and pervasive with children learning about it at the early stages of their formative years, while adults continue to learn and operate on the frame through socialization. For Bracey, Chambers, Lavelle, and Mueller (2017), the “language of the frame” has to do with how the mind-set connects history and language within the context of word connotations and memory recall of race and social structures. As a result, WRF provides a causal instrument for the consistency of racist attitudes and discrimination throughout U.S. history (Bracey et al, 2017).…”

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“…For Bracey, Chambers, Lavelle, and Mueller (2017), the “language of the frame” has to do with how the mind-set connects history and language within the context of word connotations and memory recall of race and social structures. As a result, WRF provides a causal instrument for the consistency of racist attitudes and discrimination throughout U.S. history (Bracey et al, 2017).…”

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Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

Kumah-Abiwu

2019

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Black men continue to face many challenges in the United States, but their negative portrayal in the media seems to be one of the pervasive challenges facing them. While “occupying” a huge space in the media landscape, one wonders why such a space has not been adequately used to draw public interest/attention to the problems facing Black men. This dilemma with implications for policy outcomes (action/inaction) deserves further theoretical insight. To explore this, the article draws on the critical race theory and white racial frame with the literature on the social construction of Blackness, Black men, and media gatekeeping to advance the argument that the intersections of race, social structures, and media gatekeepers create incentives for the negative portrayal of Black men.

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“…The white racial frame includes positive attitudes about whites and negative views of people of color, discursive techniques for justifying racial inequality, and priorities that favor whites’ material and emotional interests, among other organizing principles (Bracey et al. forthcoming).…”

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“Race Tests”: Racial Boundary Maintenance in White Evangelical Churches

Bracey

Moore

2017

Sociological Inquiry

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How and why do nominally open organizations remain racially segregated in the post-civil rights era? What role do interpersonal interactions play in the perpetuation of segregation? Using ethnographic data gathered from seven, majority white, evangelical churches across four states, we find that social actors (i.e., clergy and congregants) play a central role in continuing racial segregation by executing "race tests" on people of color who attempt to gain entry to these spaces. Race tests are performances by white individuals and groups, in the presence of incoming people of color. They utilize racial microaggressions, playing on persistent racist stereotypes and/or histories of racial violence, to preclude or precondition people of color's participation in predominantly white social spaces. White actors in white social spaces initiate utility-based race tests to determine whether people of color are willing to serve the interests of whites in the space, or execute exclusionary race tests to coerce people of color into leaving the space. We provide examples of both types of race tests and discuss the role of such microaggressions and the racialized emotions at play in the reproduction of segregation in historically white social spaces like white evangelical churches.

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The White Racial Frame: A Roundtable Discussion

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Advancing a sociology of ignorance in the study of racism and racial non‐knowing

Advancing a sociology of ignorance in the study of racism and racial non‐knowing

Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

“Race Tests”: Racial Boundary Maintenance in White Evangelical Churches

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