Intro

• The term 'ethnic' refers to people who share common cultural characteristics such as language, religion or customs.
• Ethnic inequality is the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities and power between ethnic groups
• Two areas of life are: crime and deviance and education.
• Mount refers to 5 reasons why some people have more positive benefits:

  • Inequality of opportunity
  • Inequality of outcome
  • Inequality of income
  • Inequality of participation
  • Inequality of wealth
• Types of racism:

  • Language
  • Physical aggression
  • Genocide
  • Institutional racism
• Modood (1994)


  28% of African Caribbean people surveyed, said they felt they had refused a job on grounds of race.