SOCIOL 131AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Institutional Racism, Urban Renewal, Marshall Plan
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Policies, laws, and institutions that produce or reproduce racial inequality: can be the result of actions that are intentionally and deliberately discriminatory. Racially disparate treatment can be explicit or cloaked in non-racial terms: in other cases, institutional racism is motivated neither by prejudice nor intent to harm, but the effect is the same. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, america will never be whole. ta-nehisi coates. Created two types of programs: social insurance: Benefits as a right, not stigmatized: means tested public assistance: Aid to dependent children, old age assistance, aid to the blind. Racial inequality built into both types of programs. Southern congressional representatives made sure social security. Act excluded agricultural and domestic workers from social insurance: excluded majority of blacks and mexicans. Excluded from social insurance, blacks, and mexicans forced to rely more on welfare. Racial inequality also built into these programs.
