Racial inequality does not rest only with discriminating individuals

Evidence

But racial habits don’t come out just in interactions between white people and black people. We’re wrong when we think the problem of racial inequality rests simply with discrimination, whether by overt racists or people unconsciously enacting racial habits. This approach locates the problem elsewhere—with the bad people over there, safely securing most of us from the idea that our actions and snap judgments contribute, in any way, to racial inequality. Thinking in this way denies that the problem may be with the way we all live our lives, even in arenas that seem to have nothing to do with race. Something much more banal and pernicious is definitely at work. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 155

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; Environmental visibility and remediation access are distributed unequally by race, class, and globalization — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 175; Post-Cold-War racism showed class analysis alone cannot explain structural inequality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1357 (+1 more)