institutionalized racism

(noun)

An embedded pattern of social structures and institutions—such as governments, legal systems, educational systems, courts, financial systems, etc.—that awards privileges to white people and discriminates against people of color based on their race.

Related Terms

Examples of institutionalized racism in the following topics:

  • Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

    • As both legal and illegal immigrants with high population numbers, Hispanic Americans are often the target of stereotyping, racism, and discrimination.
    • The major blow to America's formally institutionalized racism was the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    • Some sociologists, however, would argue that institutionalized racism persists, especially since African Americans still fair poorly in terms of employment, insurance coverage, and incarceration, as well as in the areas of economics, health, and education.

  • Racial Tensions and Black Lives Matter

    • Originating in 2013 in response to police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement has raised awareness of institutionalized racism in the United States.
    • Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an activist movement originating in the African-American community that campaigns against violence and institutionalized racism toward black people in the United States.

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Harlem became an African-American neighborhood in the early 1900s, during the Great Migration in which many sought a better standard of living and relief from the institutionalized racism in the South.
    • Despite the increasing popularity of black culture, virulent white racism continued to affect African-American communities.
    • Characterizing the Harlem Renaissance was an overt racial pride and the developing idea of a new black identity, who through intellect and production of literature, art, and music could challenge the pervading racism and promote progressive politics.
    • Some common themes represented during the Harlem Renaissance were the influence of slavery, black identity, the effects of institutional racism, the dilemmas of performing and writing for elite white audiences, and how to convey the experience of modern black life in the urban North.

  • Institutional Prejudice or Discrimination

    • Institutionalized discrimination refers to discrimination embedded in the procedures, policies or objectives of large organizations.
    • Institutionalized discrimination within the housing market also includes practices like redlining and mortgage discrimination.
    • Institutionalized discrimination refers to the unfair, indirect treatment of certain members within a group.
    • Examples of institutionalized discrimination include laws and decisions that reflect racism, such as the 1896 Plessy vs.
    • The achievement gap in education is another example of institutionalized discrimination.

  • The Law as an Instrument of Oppression

    • When institutionalized, formally or informally, it may achieve the dimension of systematic oppression.
    • In psychology, racism, sexism and other prejudices are often studied as individual beliefs which, although not necessarily oppressive in themselves, can lead to oppression if they are codified in law or become parts of a culture.
    • By comparison, in sociology, these prejudices are often studied as being institutionalized systems of oppression in some societies.

  • Pluralism

    • Multiculturalism is an ideology that promotes the institutionalization of communities containing multiple cultures.
    • Multiculturalism is an ideology that promotes the institutionalization of communities containing multiple cultures.
    • Multiculturalism in Western countries was seen as a useful set of strategies to combat racism, protect minority communities of all types, and to undo policies that had prevented minorities from having full access to the opportunities for freedom and equality promised by the liberalism that have been the hallmark of Western societies since the Age of Enlightenment.

  • Institutional Racism in South Africa

  • Racism

    • Racism can refer to any or all of the following beliefs and behaviors:
    • Racism is opposed by almost all mainstream voices in the United States.
    • A number of international treaties have sought to end racism.
    • Structural racism refers to inequalities built into an organization or system.
    • Identify four scenarios which separately illustrate individual-level racism, structural racism, cultural racism, and historical racism

  • Race

    • While race is largely understood to be a social construct, most scholars agree that race has real material effects in the lives of people through institutionalized practices of preference and discrimination.
    • Racism today continues to contribute to the suffering of many people in the form of slavery, genocide, systemic oppression, and institutionalized discrimination.

  • Institutionalized Children

    • Institutionalized children may develop institutional syndrome, which refers to deficits or disabilities in social and life skills.
    • It has also been argued that institutionalized individuals become psychologically more prone to mental health problems.
    • The term institutionalization can be used both in regard to the process of committing an individual to a mental hospital or prison, or to institutional syndrome; thus a person being "institutionalized" may mean either that he/she has been placed in an institution, or that he/she is suffering the psychological effects of having been in an institution for an extended period of time.
    • Discuss both the processes of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization, as they relate to issues juveniles may have