Systemic racism in the United States : scaffolding as social construction.
"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. - with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web - providing insight into racist thought and behavior that construct...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Dedication; Foreword; References; Preface; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Racial Scaffolding: Conceptual Overview; The Case of Trayvon Martin; Racism in America; Social Construction; Oppression; References; Chapter 2: Discrimination; Acts of Discrimination; How Discrimination Has Played Out in the Social Order; Discrimination and Race; Summary; References; Chapter 3: Institutional Legalization of Racism: Exploitation of the Core Groups; Historical Context; Exploitation of the Core Groups; First Nation Peoples Institutionalization; Africans Made Slaves
- Mexicans Enveloped within AmericaChinese Oppressed; Summary; References; Chapter 4: Immigration Through the Lens of Systemic Racism; Immigration Defined; History of Immigration in the United States; Significant Laws; Contemporary Immigrants; Context of Immigration Policies; Push and Pull; Transnationalism; The Nature of Systemic Racism and Immigration for the Core Groups; First Nation/Indigenous People; Mexicans; Africans; Chinese; Immigration Trends; Summary; References; Chapter 5: The Infrastructure of Racism: The Psychic Dimensions; The American Psyche: Racial Internalization in Context
- Racial Identity: Sense of SelfWhite Internalization; People of Color Internalization; The Influence of Discrimination on Internalization; Privilege; Dominance/Power; Stereotypes; Ethnic Identity Versus Racial Identity; Theories of Racial Identity and Two Racial Identity Models: Moving Toward Racial Acceptance from Within the Self; A People of Color Identity Model; White Racial Identity Model; References; Chapter 6: The Infrastructure of Racism: The Institutional Dimensions; Invisibility of Structural Racism; Racially Disparate Outcomes Are Systemic; Interlocking Institutional Web of Racism
- Explanatory Framework for Understanding Institutional RacismIndividual Level; Organizational Level; Societal Level; Summary; References; Chapter 7: Intersectionality: The Linkage of Racism with Other Forms of Discrimination; Racism: The Overarching Form of Oppression; Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality; Intersection of People and Societal Institutions; Racism and Its Intersection with Social Subsets; Oppression: The Foundation of Intersectional Racism; Power; Cultural Sway; Colonization, Immigration, and Intersectionality; Summary; References; Chapter 8: Racism and Social Justice
- Social Justice DefinedHuman Rights Perspective; Social Justice and Racial Disparity; Distributive Justice; Procedural Justice; Interactional Justice; Core Groups Related to Recent Immigrants; Core Groups and Social Justice; Immigration; Intersectionality: Justice vs. Injustice; Summary; References; Chapter 9: Deconstruction of Racism; Major Concepts; Contemporary Examples of Resistance to Racism; Black Lives Matter; Standing Rock; Anti-Racism Movements and Models; What Is Anti-Racism?; Movements; Models; Synergy of the Civil Rights Movements and Models; Liberation Models; Lessons Learned