Racism targets deploy a documented range of behavioral coping responses.

Evidence

Individuals are actors in a power structure. Power can be used to reproduce racism, but it can also be used to combat racism. Immediate emotional reactions can include anger, frustration, powerlessness. Targets of racism have been found to employ a range of behavioral responses: speak up, remain silent, ignore racism, work harder to prove them wrong, pray, get violent, repress the memory (McNeilly et al., 1996). In the South African example, we speak up, and challenge the hotel management to provide sustainable improvements. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1512