Everyday racism is a multidimensional accumulation, not a singular act
Evidence
Everyday racism is never a singular act in itself, but a multidimensional experience (McNeilly et al., 1996). One event triggers memories of other, similar incidents, of the beliefs surrounding the event, of behavioral coping and cognitive responses. Joe Feagin and Melvin Sikes, who studied at length black Americans’ accounts of racism, agree that the “recurring experiences… with whites who discriminate are at the heart of the racial problem” (1994:15). In other words, each instantiation of everyday racism has meaning only in relation to the whole complex of relations and practices. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1479
Categorization
- DEFINE: Sharpen the definition of “everyday racism”: it exists as recurring patterned experience, each instance meaningful only within the whole complex of relations and practices.
- XREF: Connects to vault’s racialization/racial formation definitions, since this treats everyday racism as a structural accumulation rather than isolated acts, echoing racial-formation theory. — connects to: Everyday racism is a process of resource negotiation sustaining unequal power, not only outcomes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1475; Everyday mundane events reveal the nature of racism; Everyday racism adapts to each society’s institutionalized structures. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1486 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484 - Racism reproduces through three intertwined everyday micro-processes
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1481 - Everyday mundane events reveal the nature of racism
#expands(0.82) - Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form
#corroborates(0.80) - Everyday racism links small recurring injustices to macrostructural racial hierarchies
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1455 - Everyday racism adapts to each society’s institutionalized structures.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1486 - Racism is lived through class, place, age and gender, not race alone.
#expands(0.72) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 50