SOC 269 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Joe Feagin, Institutional Racism
Document Summary
Systemic racism is structured into everyday life experience: people are born, live and die within a racist system. System of oppression made up of many thousands of everyday acts of mistreatment that range from the overt to the covert. It includes a complex array of discriminatory practices in various institutions. The goal of systemic racism is to preserve power and privilege. Patterns of unequal treatment based on racial characteristics that are built into the institutions and daily operations of society. e. g. , police malpractice, housing segregation, racial barriers in education. Study in 2011 looked at prison records in north carolina - found that of black women, women with light skin served 12% less time behind bars than their darker-skinned counterparts and received lesser sentences. Another study in 2006 also found that the death penalty sentence is passed down twice as likely on men with very stereotypical black features.
