Racism in the United States

Racism in the United States has been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against racial or ethnic groups since the colonial era, when European Americans were given legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights denied to other races or minorities. Major racially and ethnically structured institutions include slavery, segregation, Native American reservations, Native American boarding schools, immigration and naturalization law, and internment camps.

Quotes

• In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
  • Toni Morrison, in The Guardian (January 29, 1992)

See also

• Black Lives Matter
• Defund the police
• Jim Crow laws
• Lynching
• Reparations for slavery
• Slavery in the United States
• White privilege