ABSTRACT
For a system of oppression to persist it is necessary to develop not only a strong rationalizing frame but also to build that frame's ideas, notions, images, and emotions into the everyday operation of important organizational structures of society. Whites routinely engage in racial performances and discriminatory behaviors motivated by the racist stereotypes, images, narratives, and emotions of that frame. It is hard to overestimate the centuries-old impacts of the white racial frame on societal institutions. The performances emerging out of the dominant racial frame are frequently essential in integrating white networks, which makes implementing anti-racist changes more difficult. One of the oldest stereotyped notions in the dominant frame is that relating to black intelligence and incompetence. The dominant racial frame still views whites as a group to be generally superior and people of color as groups to be generally of less social, economic, and political consequence.
