PHIL 3623 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Institutional Racism, White Supremacy, Societal Racism
4 Jun 2017
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Where do we see racial inequality: criminal justice system, employment, education. Sociological theories of racism: lenses that help make sense of patterns such as the over representation of. Racism includes both prejudice and discrimination: racial prejudice. Refers to racially biased beliefs: racial discrimination. Involves practices or actions that reproduce racial inequality o. Operate at the level of the subconscious: assimilation. Understood as the incorporation of ethnic minority groups into the mainstream o. Individual acts of racial discrimination and bigotry are commonplace in our society and help reproduce racial inequalities. Daily commonplace insults and racial slights that cumulatively affect the psychological well-being of people of color. The policies, laws, and institutions that reproduce racial inequalities. Two different ways to view institutional racism: systemic racism and structural racism. A diverse assortment of racist practices; the unjustly gained economic and political power of whites; the continuing resource inequalities; and the white-racist ideologies, attitudes, and institutions created to preserve white advantage and power .
