Racial habits form through daily experience rather than overt racism

Evidence

Racial habits are a particular kind of social habit. We hold them because we have grown up in a country that values white people more than others. We learn this not by way of overt racism but through the details of daily life, like when we experience the differences in the quality of schools we attend, the different nature of our interactions with the police, the different ways we navigate where we work, our different neighborhoods, and the daily barrage of signals and cues about race that all Americans get through television and in news reports. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 145

Categorization

• DEFINE: Completes the definition: racial habits are acquired structurally and interpersonally, never from explicit teaching.
• XREF: connects to: Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322; Racism reproduces through three intertwined everyday micro-processes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1481; 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