ABSTRACT
In the elite-white-male dominance system it is difficult for a particular political official, especially one not white and male, to stray far from a societal framing acceptable to the ruling white elite, or at least one major faction within it. Four of the twelve Yale colleges are named after white male slaveholders, and eleven are named for white men. These and many similar examples indicate the architecture of systemic racism and sexism, of how such oppression gets actually built into physical structures that outlast many generations of human beings. The chapter discusses the male-normed and male-framed character of many US organizations, including workplaces. These institutions are also class-normed and class-framed, as well as racially normed and framed. The mostly white male controllers of societal information have used these increasingly powerful means in their quest for the production and diffusion of racist, sexist, and classist ideas, images, and narratives from the dominant racial, gender, and class frames.
