Institutional racism

I thought the movie was great overall, and it also has good ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix, and IMDb. I think history classes should show this movie to the students when learning about the civil rights movement and racism. I would suggest people keep in mind that there is some explicit, disturbing, and violent content. For example, the movie shows two African Americans lynched and forgotten about. Another example is the freedom bus explosion. Although these images…

It includes advantages varying from institutional settings like systemic discrimination in housing markets, to everyday encounters such as being able to shop in a store without getting followed around by security or employees. White privilege also provides a variety of social and economic benefits…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Canadian Race Relations Foundation is an agency committed to the elimination of racism, and promoting harmonic relations between the diverse groups of the Canadian populace. The foundation was ratified under legislature by the federal government in the year 1996, and its operations operations in 1997. The foundation sustains itself on a one-time endowment of $24 million, charitable contributions it receives, and grants. The organization is accountable to the citizens of…

As I have progressed from a sales associate, to a supervisor and now to a manager of my store, I have begun to see the institution of racism manifest itself in the ugliest of ways. Now that I am a manager, I am called over to diffuse difficult situations with customers. The neighborhood that I work in is an affluent one; a majority of the customer base is White. In situations that call…

Many immigrants have no choice but to uproot their entire lives on the small piece of hope that in America, the land of opportunity, life will be better. Ana’s story echoes this, her mother decided to make the difficult trip to America with her baby for their family to be whole again. The reason being that in Mexico they were facing such extreme poverty Ana’s parents couldn’t even afford to marry much less support a family, so off to America her father went. Once there, like many immigrants, he…

African Americans in Children’s Literature A study focusing on multiculturalism in children’s literature found that in 2013, only 93 of 3,200 children’s books were centered around African American characters (Myers, 2014). Myers asserts that the study also found that only 67 children’s titles were actually written by African American authors (2013). Rudine Bishop states that when Black characters do appear in children’s literature, they often appear “as objects of ridicule and generally inferior…

Privilege refers to a special right, advantage, or immunity that is available to only a particular person or group of people. Most people relate privilege to the word earned. For example, many parents tell their teenage children that driving is a privilege and not a right. The truth is that not all privileges are earned nor are they always enjoyed. White privilege creates advantages for white people that other races cannot always say that they have. White people do not always like or create the…

keep a monopoly over their power in turn subjugating all other races, while meritocracy is kept as a façade to claim that there are no intuitional disadvantages, as individuals are actors of their own futures. I will be employing an critical anti-racism approach to unpack these ideas, as it seeks to develop an understanding of the nature of differing power relations through which institutionalized, racialized disenfranchisement or marginalization takes place and persists (Dei, 1996). It see…

the ending of slavery and especially after the Civil Rights movement? Well, author Michelle Alexander and songwriter Bob Dylan explain this phenomenon quite simply. Dylan’s 1963 song “Only a Pawn in Their Game” paints a vivid account of how institutional racism has been perpetuated in the 20th century. However, the brevity of the song leaves much to be unpacked. This is where Michelle Alexander’s research comes in, specifically…

they did not commit. The biggest crimes in the United States criminal Justice system is that it is a race-based, institution where African American are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people. Without question racism is still extremely present, fixed in a society that fails to understand it and buried in a badly damaged judicial system. An analysis of black history reveals that blacks often serve higher sentences than whites for the same crime because of…