Four Levels Of Racism

Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer developed four levels to changing the personal level of racism. The first level is changing ones self’s racist tendencies. This is very simple it just means to become aware of your own personal prejudices and learn how to respond to those prejudices intelligently and for racial justice. The second level is changing our inner circle’s racist tendencies. You have to hold the people around you accountable for their prejudice ideas. This can be done in a nonjudgmental way that is aimed at getting others to think about their beliefs and explain them. This gives the opportunity to share alternative ideas. The third level is to change racism in your institution. This is just simply expanding what we did for our inner circle to places like work, school, and church. You could encourage your institution to take part in programs that benefit multiculturalism. The final level is changing the way your nation’s view on racism. This can be achieved by writing your elected officials about social justice or by organizing with other groups to come up with ideas to help with social injustices.
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The functionalists theory and the conflict theory are quite different on the topic of residential segregation. Functional theorists believe that racial stratification is necessary for a functioning society saying that it can “promote group solidarity, as people within the same social class will identify with each other.” On the other hand conflict theorists believe that residential segregation encourages prejudice and discrimination among groups. Conflict theorists say “racial segregation is way for the dominant racial group to maintain its power while at the same time subjugating non-whites to segregated and/or lower income neighborhoods.” The main difference between them is that one believes that racial segregation is a good thing and the other believes that it only makes problems