Routledge The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing

In this book Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame. Now four centuries-old, this white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of "race," but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are still central to the frame’s everyday operations. Deeply imbedded in American minds and institutions, this white racial frame has for centuries functioned as a broad worldview, one essential to the routine legitimation, scripting, and maintenance of systemic racism in the United States. Here Feagin examines how and why this white racial frame emerged in North America, how and why it has evolved socially over time, which racial groups are framed within it, how it has operated in the past and in the present for both white Americans and Americans of color, and how the latter have long responded with strategies of resistance that include enduring counter-frames.In this new edition, Feagin has included much new interview material and other data from recent research studies on framing issues related to white, black, Latino, and Asian Americans, and on society generally. The book also includes a new discussion of the impact of the white frame on popular culture, including on movies, video games, and television programs as well as a discussion of the white racial frame’s significant impacts on public policymaking, immigration, the environment, health care, and crime and imprisonment issues. Review "The White Racial Frame is critically important -- it is now a basic text in the field, and a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the reasons for America's racial divide. In the new edition, Feagin's analysis is illuminating, highly persuasive, and provocative -- and could not be more timely."-Elijah Anderson, Sociology, Yale University, and the author of The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life."In this revelatory book, Joe Feagin challenges the dominant "white frame" that is so embedded in the white mind that we are barely conscious of its existence. His great achievement is precisely that―to make us conscious of the bevy of assumptions that have legitimated, rationalized, and shaped racial oppression. Like donning a new pair of glasses, we now see even quotidian manifestations of racism in relation to the vast web of historical and institutional forces that continue to reproduce racial inequalities. We are far from transcending race as a society, but we can liberate the mind, and readers will leave this book with a grasp of elemental truths."-Stephen Steinberg, Urban Studies, CUNY: Queens College and Graduate center, and the author of Race Relations: A Critique"The White Racial Frame is a much needed analysis for understanding how systemic racism has continued to afflict the lives of millions of Americans of color in the twenty-first century, when supposedly the country approached a post-racial age of equality and fairness. No U.S. scholar has done more to reveal the extensiveness of systemic racism in U.S society than Joe. R. Feagin."-Nestor Rodriguez, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin"With painstaking research and razor-sharp critical analysis, Feagin offers a stunning examination of how the White racial frame has structured the genesis and trajectory of modern day race relations. In this new edition, the new examples of how the frame is articulated through the global mass media have particular resonance in an age of increasing media dependence. This book is an important and meaningful contribution to critical race theory and will be required reading for all of my race courses." - Cherise Harris, Sociology, Connecticut College"This book is an essential text in the contemporary corpus of sociological theory. J