Systematic Racism In America
written by Le'Bert A. Gordon; edited by @TheAbeng
Introduction
The term Systematic Racism, developed by Sociologist Joe Feagin, is both a theoretical and reality-based concept which has become a popular way of explaining the significance of race, both historically and socially, within today's social sciences and humanities. The development of this theory was influenced by other scholars of race, such as, Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. DuBois, Oliver Cox, Anna Julia Cooper, Kwame Ture, Frantz Fanon, and Patricia Hill Collins, among others. Systematic Racism is rooted in a foundation composed of intersecting, overlapping, and co-dependent racist institutions, policies, practices, ideas, and behaviors.
Feagin used historical evidence and demographic statistics to create a theory which asserted that the United States was founded in racism. His theory noted that the Constitution classified black people as the property of whites, and that this legal recognition of slavery is a cornerstone of a racist social system - a system in which resources and rights are given to white people and unjustly denied to people of color. However, while Feagin developed his theory based on the history and reality of anti-black racism in the United States, it is now usefully being applied to understanding how racism functions generally, both within the United States and around the world.
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