Institutional racism

Upon release of a new debate topic about racial justice and whether or not African Americans should get reparations, I was immediately terrified of what could become of the topic. A mass of racist interpretations that I feared ran in my head, “it dehumanizes them”, or “slavery happened a long time ago”, and worst of all, “there’s no obligation to pay because African Americans benefited from slavery.” I cringed. Here I thought this would be the worse topic I would ever debate, but after a few…

The American society has come a long way. There have been numerous advances in medicine and technology over the centuries but a society as advanced as the U.S.A cannot get passed the skin color of a person. The discrimination that blacks face on a daily basis is far from over though it is not as obvious as it used to be. Gone are the days when signs were put up prohibiting blacks from riding on the same bus as whites. Gone also are the days when blacks and whites were not allowed to attend…

Day by day the world is getting worse, but some areas are being affected more than others. Environmental racism is the cause of this. Environmental racism has slowly been trying to be solved, it has been causing health problems and it only affects a certain group of people. F or starters environmental racism is hazardous to health for instance data has shown that “Inuit babies and children begin life exposed to an enormous burden of toxic chemicals placing them at increased risk of a range of…

the United States for me creates a new avenue of thinking. Generally, when thinking of inequality, I have viewed it in the individual sense, such as the inequality rising from an individual’s mistreatment, racism or discrimination of another individual. I had understood what institutional racism was, and that inequality could be institutionalized. However, when I thought of these things to me the negative attributes arose from a person or perhaps a few people in charge of the larger institutions…

The concept of racism has changed throughout the centuries. Racism used to consist of believing people of a different color are subhuman, now we believe a black man runs faster than a white man because of his race. Racism and prejudices transformed into stereotypes that are ingrained into our brains because of society and the people around us. The Unites States may not be at the position of Jim Crow laws like it was in the 1960s, but racism is still taking place. It is interweaved into…

The “New Urban Poverty” is what has developed as a result of work disappearing in urban areas. The book, More than Just Race, by William Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy at Harvard, argues that “the disappearance of work and the consequences of that disappearance for both social and cultural life are the central problems in the inner-city ghetto.” The new urban poverty that Wilson describes is comprised of years of data compiled that create for a better understanding of the injustice…

word race does not have a biological meaning; however, socially the word has become constructed over the years. Dividing people by race is an idea to organize and differentiate the population. This categorization has created a long term affects of racism and superiors. Constructing people by facial features and colors has force society to judge a person because of what they look like, creating prejudice. How people view and act towards race is constructed through experience and cultural…

We live in a time where unfortunately, racism is still an issue that many people across many races deal with. In America, it is mainly African-Americans, Hispanics, and Middle Eastern people that deal with the pain and hatred that takes shape in many different forms. In “Understanding White Privilege” by Frances Kendall, Ph.D., the author explores the concept of white privilege with an informative, yet critical tone in order to persuade readers to think differently. Kendall starts off by…

examine caste-based discrimination in Indian higher education contexts. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an interdisciplinary research framework to study the role of race and pervasiveness of racism in American society. CRT is extensively explored in educational research and studies have established that race and racism are prevalent and systemic in structural and cultural aspects of the U.S. CRT challenges the dominant ideology such as meritocracy, color blindness, race neutrality and equal…

Alys Byram CES 100 Racism, as well as institutional racism, have become majorly influential topics in the U.S. Through the generations White privilege has solidified as an advantage for the few, but not for the masses. Yet, this poisonous mentality is still thought of as a form of justification to racially discriminate ethnic minorities. Bigotry is both managed and preserved through matters that involve characteristics and intellect. Although, research and scientific analyses ' discredit these…