Race in America — How Systems Reproduce Racial Inequality
What changes when we stop asking only whether individuals are prejudiced and begin examining the systems surrounding them?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Race in America by Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer as our lens, this investigation explores race as a socially and historically constructed system with consequences extending far beyond individual attitudes.
Desmond and Emirbayer challenge several common assumptions about racism: that it exists only inside prejudiced individuals, that legal equality automatically creates social…
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