Inequalities Along Racial Lines

How Social Inequalities get organized along Racial Lines

Discrimination and prejudice come in different forms, and are learned in different ways. These agents for prejudice come from culture and socialization, family, friends, school, work and the media they all play a huge role in racism. There is organization in discrimination, it comes in two forms, individual and institutional. Individual discrimination is the negative treatments and discriminations of one person by another. It is a more personal act, therefore it is in your face or more overt. Some examples of individual discrimination are treating people you interact with negatively based on your certain beliefs, groups such as the KKK, or being refused service because of your race,
The criminal justice system is another example of institutionalized discrimination, African Americans are often given longer prison sentences, arrested more often, and receive much harsher treatment in court, which I will be getting deeper into in the following paragraphs. In the articles, "Race Matters" and "The Startling Effects of Housing Discrimination in Ferguson" the sociological concept being examined is industrialized discrimination. In other words the discrimination and the race based favoritism that goes on in society and how race plays a huge role in many industries, where the policies customers are required to follow change based on your race and ethnicity. Large corporations, the criminal justice system, housing, and many other industries practice this race based favoritism. In the documentary "White like Me" Tim wise speaks about how white people have had privileges in the U.S that weren't available to black people since early history. Only white immigrants could become citizens of the U.S in early history. Social programs, also mainly only benefited white people, job insurance, for example, which helped people while
This had to do with race, blacks prominently took over these jobs therefore they didn’t allow whomever worked those jobs assistance. Also mentioned in the article “The Startling Effects of Housing Discrimination in Ferguson,” 98% of FHA loan recipients were white from 1934 to 1968. Another program that mainly only benefitted white people was G.I build, a program for veterans. White people in the U.S. have had privileges that black people don’t, it has been this way and still is. A lot of the time these race favored privileges go unseen because industrialized discrimination is written in fine print per-say. It isn't something that is obvious, like Combs' quote that was stated in the article says, "discrimination today is very subtle. Often times people have no idea that they've been victims of housing discrimination of any sort because it looks different now. It’s with a smile. It’s with a handshake. It’s with a nice tone of voice." Raced based favoritism is built into the system of the country. The favoritism of whites in these programs, and loans