Answer the following about contemporary sociological theories of racism, for 10 points each.
[10e] Victor Ray’s structural theory of these institutions seeks to fill in a meso-level theory of racialization alongside societal and individual theories. Along with industries, these institutions name a branch of psychology that studies the workplace.
ANSWER: organizations [accept industrial-organizational psychology]
[10h] Ray’s theory draws on the work of this Duke sociologist in conceptualizing racism as a structural phenomenon, a “racialized social system.” This sociologist’s book Racism Without Racists examines the “white habitus” and “Latin Americanization” of the American racial system.
ANSWER: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
[10m] Much of contemporary analysis of whiteness draws from the work of Peggy McIntosh, who used this metaphor for white privilege in a 1989 essay about “unpacking” this metaphorical object.
ANSWER: invisible knapsack [or invisible backpack; accept “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”; prompt on knapsack or backpack]
<Ryan Rosenberg, Social Science>