Feagin addresses multiple different factors for defining and understanding systemic racism. White race establishes power, creating racial hierarchy. Whites promote and display racial framing, which includes but goes far beyond instances of stereotyping and prejudice. Dominant race discriminates and spreads discrimination against the subservient race. Propagation of disparities and inequalities through the social and governmental systems. The existence of the different placements of systemic racism within our systems, institutions and networks has taken place over time and has been instilled and manifested into our attitudes and behavior. Although we may think we have moved past it, many healthcare professionals are either unaware or struggling to come to grips with the new standards of equality we are trying to implement and maintain. People in positions of power in the medical field are often blind to the racism that exists within our systems, consequently only perpetuating its
Feagin addresses multiple different factors for defining and understanding systemic racism. White race establishes power, creating racial hierarchy. Whites promote and display racial framing, which includes but goes far beyond instances of stereotyping and prejudice. Dominant race discriminates and spreads discrimination against the subservient race. Propagation of disparities and inequalities through the social and governmental systems. The existence of the different placements of systemic racism within our systems, institutions and networks has taken place over time and has been instilled and manifested into our attitudes and behavior. Although we may think we have moved past it, many healthcare professionals are either unaware or struggling to come to grips with the new standards of equality we are trying to implement and maintain. People in positions of power in the medical field are often blind to the racism that exists within our systems, consequently only perpetuating its