institutional racism

English

Noun

institutional racism (countable and uncountable, plural institutional racisms)

1. Racism expressed in the practice of social and political institutions.
   • 1967 Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America page 4

     Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes

   • 1970 Institutional Racism in America
   • 1986 Discrimination American Style: Institutional Racism and Sexism
   • 1990 "institutional+racism" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volumes 507-509 page 54

     classrooms; the inability of schools to promote equality; and institutional racism

   • 1996 preface page 9 to Univ of Massachusetts Press' reprint of "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans" (originally published 1833 without preface)

     Institutional racism and socioeconomic barriers continue to operate against the advancement of African Americans, keeping the number in poverty

Related terms

• institutionalized racism
• systemic racism