Institutional Racism

• What Is Institutional Racism

  the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin". –Macpherson report

  •Policies – e.g. military policing operations, stop and searches•Hiring practices (even including dress codes)•Organisational culture (canteen culture)
• Stephen Laurence


  •Stephen Lawrence was an 18 year old Black British man from who was murdered in a racially motivated attack in 1993.•The case became one of the highest profile racial killings in UK history; its fallout included profound cultural changes to attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice, before two of the perpetrators were convicted almost 20 years later in 2012.
• Institutional Racism

  •Institutional racism is discriminatory treatment, unfair policies and inequitable opportunities and impacts, based on race, produced and perpetuated by institutions (schools, mass media, etc.). Individuals within institutions take on the power of the institution when they act in ways that advantage and disadvantage people, based on race.
• Individual Racism

  •These are private manifestations of racism that reside inside the individual.•