Explicitly written for undergraduate course use, the white racial frame is a broad-based way of thinking about race that encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology accented in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of language, interlinking interpretations, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to this frame's everyday operation.

Joe R. Feagin is Ella C. McFadden Professor at Texas A & M University. Feagin has done much research on racism and sexism issues for forty-nine years and has served as the Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has written 59 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. His recent books include Systemic Racism (Routledge 2006) and White Party, White Government (Routledge 2012). He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard alumni association's lifetime achievement award and was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.

Chapter 1 The White Racial Frame; Chapter 2 Building the Racist Foundation; Chapter 3 Creating a White Racial Frame; Chapter 4 Extending the White Frame; Chapter 5 The Contemporary White Racial Frame; Chapter 6 The Frame in Everyday Operation; Chapter 7 The Frame in Institutional Operation; Chapter 8 Counter-Framing; Chapter 9 Toward a Truly Multiracial Democracy;