Everyday racism is a process of resource negotiation sustaining unequal power, not only outcomes

Evidence

Racism is not confined to institutional settings, because our everyday lives are not confined to institutional settings either. Furthermore, racism is not only a set of outcomes, but intrinsically a process which sustains unequal relations of power. As a process, everyday racism is interwoven in ongoing negotiations over resources, whereby the one party “can gain and maintain the capacity to impose its will repeatedly upon another, despite any opposition, by its potential to contribute or withhold critical resources from the central task, as well as by offering or withholding rewards, or by threatening or invoking punishment” (Lipman-Blumen, 1994:110). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1475

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional work: positions everyday racism as a process embedded in resource negotiations rather than a fixed attitudinal or institutional outcome.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the vault’s racialization/racial formation definitions — everyday racism as a micro-causal process complementing Omi & Winant’s structural racial formation. — connects to: Everyday racism is a continuous, often unconscious exercise of power that presupposes white privilege — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1466; Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project; Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484 (+5 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
• Everyday racism is a multidimensional accumulation, not a singular act #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1479
• Racism reproduces through three intertwined everyday micro-processes #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1481
• Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project #corroborates (0.75)
• Structural racism operates beyond individual intentions and prejudice #corroborates (0.72) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 42
• Everyday racism links small recurring injustices to macrostructural racial hierarchies #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1455