Racism Case Study Scenarios

D. Scenario: Cameron & Christine
1. Internalized Racism: When Cameron lets Anthony out of the car he tells him that he embarrasses him as well as himself. He reveals that he holds negative feelings about his own culture.
2. Roles Theory: Cameron plays a role when he is at work to impress others. He takes front stage behavior when he is at work by playing into stereotypically organizing character roles. When his manager at work ask for him to instruct the actors to speak slang instead of properly he does not say anything.
3. Feminism Perspective: The subtype Black Feminism applies to Christine’s encounter with the police. As a woman they violated her rights by molesting her which they more than likely would not have done if she was a male, but as a black woman as well because

Scenario: Detective Graham & His Mother
1. Social Exchange Theory & Power: Detective Graham is asked to make a statement that the white undercover cop that killed the black cop even though this information can possibly be false. In return, the prosecutor states he will erase his brother’s criminal record and provide him with a promotion.
2. Reality Construction Theory: Detective Grahams mother is sickly and portrays symptoms of dementia, however she construction her own reality of her two sons. Detective Graham has a career and he is doing well, while Peter is usually involved in criminal activity. She has constructed that Graham does not care about the family because he is too busy and that Peter cares. Therefore when Detective Graham leaves groceries for her at home she assumes that Peter did it because Detective Graham does not have time for his family.
3. Structural Functionalism: The man who works for the District Attorney offers Graham a proposition to keep society good. He brings awareness to how the white detective had previously killed to other black men under suspicious circumstance. He informs Graham that if she does this he will help keep society well-organized and