Examples Of Institutional Discrimination

According to (Shapiro, 2004) “Once about 20 percent of the homeowners in a neighborhood are black, in two years, the entire neighborhoods will be black. This phenomenon occurs because of tactics like blockbusting, a method where real estate agents survey white homeowners in an area. After persuading them that the neighborhood is about to be infiltrated by a minority community the homeowners will leave the area. This is called white flight. Institutionalized discrimination exists within the actual housing system, including redlining and mortgage discrimination” (Shapiro, 2004). Institutional bias is an unfair and prejudiced ill- treatment of certain people or certain groups of people by society. Institutional bias is one of the main reasons
Some examples of institutionalized discrimination are the Plessy vs. Ferguson U.S. Supreme court case when the ruling of this case favored the separate but equal act against African Americans. There are also many other examples of that how discrimination amongst certain groups of people currently, Africans Americans they believe they are the race that experiences discrimination the most. According to (Fernandes, 2014), “Studies show considerable light on the roots of African Americans’ disadvantage along stratification-based issues such as the rates and magnitude of Intra-generational and intergenerational mobility” (Fernandes, 2014). There are many different way that have been in set in place by certain groups of people to keep every in a segregated state. There is also an motive behind institutional bias some people believe that they should just keep the different types of people because everyone is not open to their way of handling
One of the best examples is when most Americans see someone from another culture wearing a turban they began to compare them to the Muslim beliefs and the people who were responsible for 9/11. There are also stereotypes against the people are fully blooded African descent they believe that there ways and approach can be aggressive at times. The workplace is the most common and apparent places to witness institutional bias in a workplace. Sharing a personal experience from dealing with institutional bias at my work place, while in college I worked at a small restaurant that was somewhat middle class, well when African Americans or college students would come in the establishment would be the only times I could wait tables. Even though I did not agree with their marketing tactics I had a somewhat understand how they were trying to attract customers to come into their store. The marketing point was to attract African Americans and college students. This allowed me to see the different ways that institutional bias work and how it exist in the many different ways and people still them very often in different ways depending on the results they would like to