Racial habits are unthinking daily actions that sustain the value gap.

Evidence

Racial habits are the ways we live the belief that white people are valued more than others. They are the things we do, without thinking, that sustain the value gap. They range from the snap judgments we make about black people that rely on stereotypes to the ways we think about race that we get from living within our respective communities. Both shape how we account for the persistence of racial inequality today. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 141

Categorization

• DEFINE: Glaude’s precise definition of racial habits as lived belief in white supremacy, distinct from discrete prejudice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 141