ABSTRACT
This chapter moves the discussion of the white racial frame to the contemporary era and articulates with numerous examples how that frame operates today, including how it is learned, propagated, and periodically revised. Substantial attention is given to issues of “colorblindness” and the white virtuousness center of the white frame. Here Feagin further explores the contemporary white frame’s continuing preoccupation with African Americans. This includes an extensive analysis of current white stereotyping, imagery, and assessments of African Americans—including as criminal, animalistic, and oversexed, among much other negative framing. This white racial frame is shown to be more than words, as it frequently is advocated with great white emotion and expressed in whites’ many discriminatory actions. The chapter then includes a significant discussion of the negative white racial framing of immigrants of color, which negativity has expanded among whites in recent years. The last section provides a substantial analysis of the ways whites have incorporated into the white racial frame a negative framing of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino/a Americans.
