What Research Tells Us About the Psychology of Racism

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7 factors that contribute to racism in America today—and how to change

Today, many Americans observe Juneteenth, a long-celebrated holiday in the Black community that commemorates when the news that slavery had been abolished reached Galveston, Texas in 1965, two years after Abraham Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

“People often define racism as disliking or mistreating others on the basis of race. That definition is wrong,” Steven Roberts, a Stanford University psychologist and lead author of the paper, told Stanford News. “Racism is a system of advantage based on race. It is a hierarchy. It is a pandemic. Racism is so deeply embedded within U.S. minds and U.S. society that it is virtually impossible to escape.

First, they explain how Americans are organized into distinct categories, or groups, based on their race. These categories are learned from a young age, and they promote stereotyping. Third, decades of rules and laws, including housing restrictions and economic policies, have created disadvantages for Americans who are not White. As a result, American communities tend to be segregated by race. This means Americans are less likely to come into contact with people of different racial backgrounds and less likely to think of people of different races as part of their own group or faction.

 

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“Racism is a system of advantage based on race. It is a hierarchy. It is a pandemic. Racism is so deeply embedded within U.S. minds and U.S. society that it is virtually impossible to escape.”

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