institutionalracism

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While there's been a gradual advance in understanding the nature of institutionalracism, our news reports are replete with the drumbeat of misunderstandings, even death, because we keep sliding over what's behind it: something much deeper, denied only to pop out and catch us in another maelstrom, something systemic yet to be rooted out of the American psyche.

Systemic Racism: A Serious Disease 2009
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Prison Sentencing Study: Whites, Women, Non-Poor, and U.S. Citizens Are Given Lighter Sentences 2006