Small everyday discrimination acts accumulate into large power gaps between groups

Evidence

When thousands of such individual acts of discrimination are aggregated over days, weeks, years, decades, and centuries, these individual actions contribute to the clear and salient differences in the power between social groups. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3194

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the aggregation fallacy discussion and to microaggression literature; echoes the ‘death by a thousand cuts’ framing of structural inequality. — connects to: Racialized actors can decode subtle discrimination because they recognize its recurring patterns — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1489; Everyday racial exclusion works through cumulative small bureaucratic acts that are easily denied — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1488