Race and Racial Identity

1. Structural racism is the overarching system of racial bias across institutions and society.

2. We are all awarded some privileges and or disadvantages because of our race whether or not we are conscious of it.

2.1. “How do others perceive me?”

2.2. “How do I identify myself?”

3. RACISM = Racial Prejudice (Unfounded Beliefs + Irrational Fear) + Institutional Power

3.1. The concept of race is connected to our lives confer benefits and privileges to some and takes them from others.

4. Interpersonal racism ​occurs between individuals and includes public expressions of racism: slurs, biases, hateful words or actions, or exclusion.

5. It is important to recognize that race it is a social fabrication, created to classify people on the arbitrary basis of skin color and other physical features.

6. we are all one race, the human race.

6.1. Racial identity, however, is very real. And, in a racialized society like the United States, everyone is assigned a racial identity whether they are aware of it or not.

6.2. Although race has no genetic or scientific basis, this concept is important and consequential.

6.3. Societies use race to establish and justify their ranked as superior and inferior

6.3.1. systems of power

6.3.2. privilege

6.3.3. disenfranchisement

6.3.4. oppression

7. Individual racism refers to the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that support or perpetuate racism in conscious and unconscious ways.

8. Institutional racism occurs in organizations with excluding practices. the intent is to create advantages.