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Books

In Pursuit of a Dream Deferred: Linking Housing and Education Policy
More than forty years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation persists in our schools. In Pursuit of a Dream Deferred turns a critical eye toward this problem and its relationship to housing segregation in our urban areas.
Author: Edited by john a powell, Gavin Kearney, and Vina Kay
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
An editorial review from Publisher's Weekly: In an important, powerfully argued, dispassionate report that makes liberal use of tables and statistics, Hacker documents racist attitudes and practices in the business sector, reveals the low percentage of blacks enrolled in colleges and exposes white racism in politics, employment practices and education and the public's perception of crime and welfare - this divide that seems likely to persist unless drastic steps are taken.
Author: Andrew Hacker
Category: Institutionalized Racism

White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America Series)
Lopez explores the social and legal origins of white racial identity, examining cases in America's past instrumental in forming contemporary conceptions of race, law, and whiteness. He traces the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify whiteness and nonwhiteness, revealing the criteria used up until 1952 to determine whiteness and thus suitability for citizenship, and looks at race relations today.
Author: Ian F. Haney Lopez
Category: Institutionalized Racism

On-line Documents

Achieving Racial Justice: What's Sprawl Got to Do With It?
This article by john a. powell explains how institutionalized racism has developed from a historical perspective. An excellent article if you want to understand the origins of institutionalized racism.
Author: john a. powell
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: A Fact Sheet
This document from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality succinctly reviews the ways institutionalized racism manifests itself in health and health care. Near the end of the document there are links to booklets for to help people track whether they or their children have received the recommended preventive services.
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Fighting Environmental Racism
Environmental racism is the intentional siting of pollution and polluting industries in communities inhabited mainly by people of color and the working poor. This article reviews the major research findings related to Environmental Racism as well as reviewing the potential solutions to the problem. The document also includes a comprehensive bibliography for those interested in further research.
Author: Irwin Weintraub
Category: Institutionalized Racism

How Sprawl Makes Us Poor
This article explains how institutionalized racism has a profound negative impact on our entire society, and that the effects reverberate everywhere, not just in the "poor" areas.
Author: john a. powell
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Inequity in Math Education: Questions for Educators
This well written pdf document from the journal "Mathematics Educator" asks trenchant questions about not just math class, but educational systems in general, and describes how institutionalized racism manifests itself in schools.
Author: Julian Weissglass
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Institutionalized & Structural Racism: What Is It?
If you are just beginning to learn about Institutionalized Racism, this page offers a good introduction to the basic concepts.
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Racism, Belief Systems, and Student Achievement
From the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, in addition to a brief overview of racism in educational systems, this document also reviews eleven different strategies to narrow the achievement gap and end racism in schools.
Author: National Urban Alliance for Effective Education
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Urban Fragmentation as a Barrier to Equal Opportunity
This 19 page document is taken from a book of essays. john a. powell provides a more in-depth look at the way urban sprawl and institutionalized racism has a profound negative impact on our community.
Author: john a. powell
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Web Sites

Institute on Race and Poverty
The Institute on Race and Poverty seeks to create a better understanding of racialized poverty and its implications. IRP pays particular attention to social, fiscal and growth dynamics and how these impact racialized poverty and are affected by regional policy. The "Projects" area of the site has links to online articles.
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Kirwan Institute researches the causes of and solutions to racial and ethnic disparities and hierarchies. You can also find more links to articles addressing regional policy, racism in education, and structural racism in the "Research Areas" and "Writings by Dr. john powell."
Category: Institutionalized Racism

Local Government Commission
For elected officials and community activists, this site offers ways create safe and livable communities and ways to diminish the impact of institutionalized racism. Information about community design, economic development, energy, and many other topics is available on this site. Check out their 'Free Resources' section for interesting fact sheets and guidelines.
Category: Institutionalized Racism

PolicyLink
A research, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity. PolicyLink works to implement strategies to ensure that everyone - including those from low-income communities of color - can contribute to and benefit from economic growth and prosperity. They also provide tools and free online guides to advocate for change and build a healthy community in the 'Resources' section. Great for community leaders, policy makers, and community activists.
Category: Institutionalized Racism