Everyday racism does greater damage at higher levels of status and authority.
Evidence
Everyday racism adapts to the culture, norms, and values of a society as it operates through the prevalent structures of power in society. The more status or authority involved, the greater the damage resulting from commonsense prejudiced statements and discriminatory behavior. When members of parliament make discriminatory statements or sanction discriminatory policies in the course of their normal everyday duty, as politicians, the safety and civil rights of ethnic minorities and refugees are at stake. When teachers underestimate, discourage, or ignore ethnic minority children, the futures of ethnic minority generations are at stake. When employers discriminate against people of color, jobs, incomes, or career mobility are at stake as in the following example which my sister mentioned when we talked over the phone preceding my visit to South Africa. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1491
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to vault-wide treatments distinguishing everyday/micro racism from structural racism, e.g. Essed’s work and Omi & Winant’s micro-level racial projects. — connects to: Everyday racism’s harm scales with the perpetrator’s authority; Racism operates through routine practices, not only individual prejudice or formal institutions — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1473; Racism functions to secure a dominant group’s hegemony over subordinate groups. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Everyday racism’s harm scales with the perpetrator’s authority
#corroborates(0.95) - Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484 - Racism operates through routine practices, not only individual prejudice or formal institutions
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1473 - Everyday racism is a process of resource negotiation sustaining unequal power, not only outcomes
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1475 - Racism functions to secure a dominant group’s hegemony over subordinate groups.
#complicates(0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635