Everyday racism links small recurring injustices to macrostructural racial hierarchies

Evidence

This does not mean that everyday experiences of racial discrimination have been absent from discourse and collective memory. Written materials on everyday racism could be found in poems, literary narratives, and autobiographies. … Stories are one of the best rhetorical tools because they connect the storyteller and the message with the audience. Stories help to show the listener how to identify with a topic because of the detailed manner in which the stories are contextualized. … Personal accounts of the lived experience prove most illuminating in telling what everyday racism is about: injustices recurring so often that they are almost taken for granted, nagging, annoying, debilitating, seemingly small, injustices one comes to expect. The concept of everyday racism relates day-to-day experiences of racial discrimination to the macrostructural context of group inequalities represented within and between nations as racial and ethnic hierarchies of competence, culture, and human progress. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1455

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gives the operative definition of everyday racism as connecting micro-level daily slights to macrostructural group inequality.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to Crenshaw/Omi-Winant micro-macro and structural framing discussions across the vault’s CRT grounding. — connects to: Racism reproduces through three intertwined everyday micro-processes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1481; Racelessness individualizes and personalizes what is actually structural racism; Racial habits are inherited racism encoded in accumulated ordinary decisions — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 174 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism operates through routine practices that reproduce hierarchical structures #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism reproduces through three intertwined everyday micro-processes #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1481
• Everyday mundane events reveal the nature of racism #corroborates (0.90)
• Racism operates at a structural level irreducible to interpersonal group rivalry #expands (0.87) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1388
• Racial habits are inherited racism encoded in accumulated ordinary decisions #expands (0.86) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 174
• Racelessness individualizes and personalizes what is actually structural racism #corroborates (0.85)
• Modern racism is framed as individual deviance rather than systemic structure #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1817
• Lay explanations of racism favor individual pathology over structural factors #complicates (0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 353