Institutional Discrimination In The Workplace

To African American women in the workplace, it is often hard for them because they work in the environments where they are in racial minority and being a woman. Studies shows that African American women who work in predominantly White work environments would mostly likely to experience institutional discrimination and intrapersonal prejudice compare to those who worked in predominantly African American work environments. Institutional discrimination was described as organizational policies and procedures that unfairly restrict the opportunities of African Americans or that gives advantages or privileges for the majority group, while interpersonal prejudice was conceived as negative beliefs, attitudes, and feelings towards African Americans, …show more content…
First, racism is a belief that a particular race that is more dominance than another and the belief can be caused due to a learned behavior from society. According to Vincent Parrillo, in the short article "Causes of Prejudice", "Prejudicial attitudes may either be positive or negative" (Colombo, G., Gullen, R., & Lisle, B. pg. 504). However, the prejudicial attitudes being negative seems to be the main idea because of the times where people were being treated differently base on race or skin color. Parrillo believes that the levels of prejudice are based on six theories which are: authoritarian personality, economic competition, socialization, norms, self-justification, and frustration. For instance, an individual may behave in a prejudice matter could be due to one own feeling towards others. According to Bernard Kramer, mentioned in Causes of Prejudice by Parrillo, "[there are] three levels [of prejudices]: cognitive, emotional, and action orientation. Cognitive level of prejudice is a person's belief [base off on the judgement of a group]. Emotional level of prejudice is the feelings that a minority group [evoke] an individual. Action orientation level of prejudice is [a person's feeling about a certain group that act either negative or positive towards them]" (505-506). For instance, in the film The Help, Hilly believes that all the Mississippi black employees of the white families carry diseases that can harm the whites people. Her feelings on the black people identify as emotional level of prejudice. Hilly stereotype the black people because she believes that the blacks are less than the whites, so she blames the black people for maybe carrying a disease. This can relate to how people possibly still view how the African Americans are. They judge base on their own beliefs own beliefs rather than know the person at