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Please provide a definition for the term. From reading the positions on various advocates of this term, the use is indeed sloppy and often asserted without evid

Please provide a definition for the term. From reading the positions on various advocates of this term, the use is indeed sloppy and often asserted without evidence. I do not understand your second paragraph, could you elaborately more concisely please?

dragonwriter 4y ago
> Please provide a definition for the term. The totality of mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice which reinforce racially/ethnically [0] discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources. [1] > I do not understand your second paragraph, could you elaborately more concisely please? “Race essentialism” is the belief that races are clearly genetically distinct groups with fundamental and essentially immutable differences in capacities between groups that are more significant than the differences within groups, such that (among other things) differences in outcomes under fair treatment between races are immutable. “Structural racism” is typically part of the argument for policies that address current unequal conditions that are reinforced by existing structures, particularly by removing those structures. It is, in a way, the polar opposite of race essentialism, and the strong reaction against it by active racists is because it both provides an alternative explanation to race essentialism as to why outcomes in a system without overt, direct discrimination, particularly one which had such discrimination in the past, could systematically and persistently differ by race that does not rely on race essentialism and a direction as to how to correct that. [0] consistent with the more general use of “racism” to describe discrimination and bigotry by either what is conventionally described as “race” or “ethnicity”, the distinction of which is artificial and itself, in origin, a product of race essentialist ideologies. [1] This definition is a slight rephrasing (to serve more as a definition than a description) from Bailey ZD, Krieger N, Agénor M, et al. “Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions.” Lancet. 2017;389(10077):1453–1463.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> Please provide a definition for the term. The totality of mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice which reinforce racially/ethnically [0] discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources. [1] > I do not understand your second paragraph, could you elaborately more concisely please? “Race essentialism” is the belief that races are clearly genetically distinct groups with fundamental and essentially immutable differences in capacities between groups that are more significant than the differences within groups, such that (among other things) differences in outcomes under fair treatment between races are immutable. “Structural racism” is typically part of the argument for policies that address current unequal conditions that are reinforced by existing structures, particularly by removing those structures. It is, in a way, the polar opposite of race essentialism, and the strong reaction against it by active racists is because it both provides an alternative explanation to race essentialism as to why outcomes in a system without overt, direct discrimination, particularly one which had such discrimination in the past, could systematically and persistently differ by race that does not rely on race essentialism and a direction as to how to correct that. [0] consistent with the more general use of “racism” to describe discrimination and bigotry by either what is conventionally described as “race” or “ethnicity”, the distinction of which is artificial and itself, in origin, a product of race essentialist ideologies. [1] This definition is a slight rephrasing (to serve more as a definition than a description) from Bailey ZD, Krieger N, Agénor M, et al. “Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: evidence and interventions.” Lancet. 2017;389(10077):1453–1463.