Researchers Asked Groups of White College Students to Write an Essay

question 138

Multiple Choice

Researchers asked groups of white college students to write an essay about the ways in which they had been privileged or had been disadvantaged because they were white. Which of the following did the researchers find?

• A) White respondents who wrote about their racial privileges later scored higher on a modern-racism scale with anti-black items than did those respondents who did not write about their racial privileges.
• B) When whites had to consider racial privilege and inequality, most justified their privileged status by denying the existence of discrimination.
• C) When whites had to consider racial privilege and inequality, most justified their privileged status by accenting the white racial frame's anti-black stereotypes.
• D) All the above

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