Systemic Racism in the United States Scaffolding as Social Construction /

• Main Authors: Tourse, Robbie W.C (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hamilton-Mason, Johnnie (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Wewiorski, Nancy J. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social work.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Social policy.; Social Work.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Social Policy.

"Tourse, Hamilton-Mason, and Wewiorski discuss major concepts that help explicate the systemic nature of institutionalized racism in the U.S. - with a focus on social construction, oppression, scaffolding, and institutional web - providing insight into racist thought and behavior that construct...

Table of Contents:

• Racial Scaffolding: Conceptual Overview
• Discrimination
• Institutional Legalization of Racism: Exploitation of the Core Groups
• Immigration through the Lens of Systemic Racism
• The Infrastructure of Racism: The Psychic Dimension
• The Infrastructure of Racism: The Institutional Dimensions
• Intersectionality: The Linkage of Racism with Other Forms of Discrimination
• Racism and Social Justice
• Deconstruction of Racism.