Ahead of next Wednesdays podcast on Racism in Language, I've been doing a lot of research. This has frustrated me to a point where I know now I have a responsibility to share it with as many of you as possible. Below are a few great reads and watches that will (hopefully) educate you on racism and how it still exists in modern society. We are all a part of the problem.
Watch the experiment in the UK 2009 (this one is frustrating and long-winded but is worth watching)
What is important about institutional racism, is that it can dictate your life outcomes: your educational achievement, or your career prospects, rather than just the offence of an overt racist slur. The problem, is that it can only be detected when we carry out highly empirical and large scale studies – it is almost impossible to detect in our day-to-day lives without such studies.
3. Institutional Racism according to Wikipedia, and more specifically in the UK
"When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city – Birmingham, Alabama – five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of power, food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism. When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which most people will condemn. But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it."
One in four black teenage boys guilty of manslaughter given maximum jail terms while none of their white peers sentenced to more than 10 years
"Stand by the Union Jack Send those niggers back If you're white, you're alright If you're black, send 'em back"
