Silence about racism among victims limits their capacity to identify and respond to it

Evidence

In Racism in a Racial Democracy, Twine also documented that the preferred response of nonwhites to perceived racism is silence. She theorizes that this may in turn account for the limited ability to detect, evaluate, and negotiate racism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3600

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of silence as a cultural and political phenomenon — the book-length interest in silence and its meanings.
• SEED: Angler: an essay on silence about racism as an under-recognized mechanism that perpetuates racial inequality by foreclosing collective coping strategies.