The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing

In the first edition of The White Racial Frame, sociologist Joe Feagin developed an innovative new concept: the white racial frame. Now more than four centuries old, this omnipresent white racial frame encompasses not only the stereotyping, bigotry, and racist ideology emphasized in other theories of “race,” but also the visual images, array of emotions, sounds of accented language, interlinking interpretations and narratives, and inclinations to discriminate that are central to the frame’s...