Institutional economics

They define institutional racism as the systematic reliance of the “White” majority on the different types of power outlets such as symbolic, political, and economic power sources to benefit first and foremost from whatever society has to offer(p 344-345). Ian Lopez in “Ozawa and Thind” offered a graphical example of how a symbolico-political power outlet in the person of the United States Supreme Court built racial barriers. Ozawa and Thind recounted the experiences of two immigrants facing the Supreme Court in their quest to become citizen of the United States. Both of them were declined the privileges associated with American citizenship but furthermore the privileges to become part of the ruling majority “White”. Lopez showed on one hand the court could at will rely on other symbolic social categories such as Sciences to reject…

Just because! That’s the thought. Just because! That’s the reason. Just because! That’s the excuse for this privileged behavior. Those are the echoed statements of those who feel privilege enough to participate in this scheme to undermined, demoralize and constrain a group of people. When we take a step back and look at what we call "Systematic Institutional Racism" were speaking about people who cause or inflict judgment on a group of people just because of who they are. More specifically,…

Research shows that people, who report experiencing racism, have greater rates of illness than who do not report it (Williams and Mohamed, 2013). 4 Racism operates at multiple levels, ranging from the individual to structural (Gee and Ford, 2011). Structural racism is defined as the macro level systems, social forces, institutions, ideologies, and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial and ethnic groups (Williams and Mohamed, 2013). Two of the…

Are the Police Force in the US and the UK Institutionally Racist and To What Extent Does Institutional Racism Still Prevail in the UK and the US Criminal Justice System? I predominantly chose this title because I have the intentions to possibly study a course on Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice or International Business at University. I feel that this particular title would give me an insight into the potential injustices in society, specifically in organizations such as the Metropolitan…

My journey so far in the class of racism and oppression has been eye opening and this is not only my perception. The first part of my recording is the greatest evidence of how far I have come along in this class. When I listened to the recording I was completely astonished at how lost I was. With every question there was a silence of about a minute, which actually seemed like 10, where it was evident that I was thinking of an answer for the question or of how to answer the question. Likewise, I…

Often the most important themes in literature are developed in scenes in which a death or deaths take place. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the death of the character Desdemona serves as the climatic breaking point where pervasive racism and sexism can no longer exist without resulting in detrimental harm to the involved parties. It is Othello’s prideful hamartia that, combined with sexism, is the catalyst that ultimately destroys both his and Desdemona’s life. In Othello, the cast…

overwhelmingly present in 2016. On Wednesday, October 19 a Black female student at Louisiana State University (LSU) arrived at her campus apartment and found a Halloween ornament that read, “Go back 2 Africa N****r monkeys” (Campus Racial Incidents, 2016). LSU administration worked quickly to make sure the student felt as comfortable as possible and offered to move the student immediately to make sure they felt safe. The University president sat down with the student and family the day after…

Dark Girls discusses colorism and structural racism. Many personal experiences are recounted by African-American women, discussing the pressures from strangers, peers, and even family to be light-skinned. An experiment also showed a little girl selecting the drawing of a white girl for the positive traits (beauty, intelligence) and the darkest girl for the negative traits. A psychologist highlights the fact that colorism is not predispositioned; rather, societal pressures like the media…

to discriminate against other races because ‘we’re better than that.’ But evidence still leads to the contrary. While no laws reinforce obvious racism, people still contain hatred. Tiffany’s parents waited until Rachel, Tiffany, and I had all left the room before asking my parents about why they let an African American girl into the pool. I believe this is attributed to them believing that their belief system while flawed, is better than those other racists who are much more upfront about their…

Social attitudes are so important in our society, they are brought by multiple ways and that can have a big impact overall on an individual 's life. In the past, our social attitudes to this day where looked at as something negative during that time. Attitudes have to do with a positive or negative evaluation of an object person, group, or idea. What is mostly focused on in this paper is the activities of a certain group pf people. This paper will explore a movie that is based on a book titled…