Individual Racism Vs Institutional Racism

The broad spectrum of racism continue to manifest in the lives of people today (Eckermann et al., 2010). The two types of racism discussed in this section are individual or personal and institutional or systemic.
Individual and institutional racism could be manifested in an overt or covert manner (Ridley & Kwon, 2010; Henkel, Dovidio & Gaertner, 2006). Overt is persistently intended whereas covert could either be intended or unintended. In individual racism, racial discrimination and stereotyping is commonly practised by a single person or a group of people in relation to an unacceptable standard behavior (Ridley & Kwon, 2010). Because institutional racism originated from individual racism, their similarities are noticeable . Both of these racism would result to the unconscious degree of practising impartiality and the development of mistrust among the minority groups (Henkel et. al., 2006).
Prejudice and discrimination are the primary component of this type of racism (Jones, 2000). An example of this is aoidance in public places due to physical appearance. On contrast institutional racism is defined by the regulation of power and access to resources based on the mainstream population (Jones, 2000). It is basically implied that racial minorities are under privileged, having lillte power in the society. Hence, promotions are difficult to achieve in the