Institutional racism, also called systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based on a person's race or ethnic group, realized through policies and administrative practices throughout an organization or society that give unfair advantage to one ethnic group and unfair or harmful treatment to others. It is manifested as racial discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, healthcare, education, and political representation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Institutional racism, also systemic racism, is a form of institutional discrimination based upon the person's race or ethnic group, which is realized with policies and administrative practices throughout an organization and a society that give unfair advantage to an ethnic group and unfair or harmful treatment of other groups.
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