Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, the white racial frame has for centuries been essential to the systemic racism in the United States. In this new edition is a discussion of the white frame in popular culture and a discussion of its significance in public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime.

Joe R. Feagin is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. Feagin has done much research on racism issues for 56 years and has served as the Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has written more than 70 scholarly books and more than 200 scholarly articles in his research areas, and one of his books (Ghetto Revolts) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Among his major books are Systemic Racism (2006); White Party, White Government (2012); Latinos Facing Racism (with Jose Cobas, 2014); How Blacks Built America (2015); Elite White Men Ruling (with Kimberley Ducey, 2017); Racist America (with Kimberley Ducey, 2019); and Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education (with Edna Chun, 2020). He has received the American Association for Affirmative Action's Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Sociological Association's W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, and Public Understanding of Sociology Award. He was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The White Racial Frame

2. Building the Racist Foundation: Colonialism, Genocide, and Slavery

3. Creating a White Racial Frame: The First Century

4. Extending the White Frame: The Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

5. The Contemporary White Racial Frame

6. The Frame in Everyday Operation

7. The Frame in Institutional Operation: Bureaucratization of Oppression

8. Counter-Framing: Americans of Color

9. Toward a Truly Multiracial Democracy: Thinking and Acting Outside the White Frame

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index