Work cited
Gerzina, Gretchen. "Racism." Encyclopedia Americana. 2008. Grolier Online. 28 Sep. 2008 http://ea.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0327115-00. John carroll
- Racism is a belief that physical characteristics such as skin color, ethnicity, or religion affect how a person acts or will act.
- Two broader terms and subcaterogories are racial profiling, hate crimes, individual racism, and institutional racism.
- Individual racism is the belief that a racial group is not as good as you are. This the racism that you here about most often.
- Institutional racism is when systems such as a government contribute to racist results.
- Some examples of institutional racism is when people in the system show a preference to a worker, not because of skill, but because of religion, or ethnicity or skin color.
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