systemic racism

[si-stem-ik rey-siz-uhm]

noun

1. racism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of systemic racism¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Yet Boggs makes a strong case for these books as successful formal experiments in which Baldwin once again transmuted the storms of his personal life into eloquent indictments of systemic racism.

From Los Angeles Times

Across the globe, politics has entered a death-driven orbit — a necropolitical turn shaped by rising authoritarianism, militarization, widening inequality, carceral regimes, systemic racism and the spiritual force of white Christian nationalism.

From Salon

Across the globe, politics has entered a death-driven orbit — a necropolitical turn shaped by rising authoritarianism, militarization, widening inequality, carceral regimes, systemic racism and the spiritual force of white Christian nationalism.

From Salon

For all that it deals with systemic racism and economic precarity, “The Payback” is a terrifically fun book that made me laugh out loud at least once every chapter.

From Los Angeles Times

Today’s attacks on academic freedom in Florida, Texas and beyond, where bills ban courses on systemic racism, rewrite histories of slavery and Indigenous genocide, and promote “patriotic education,” are not aberrations but continuities in a long history of authoritarian attempts to control the imagination of the future by erasing the truths of the past.

From Salon