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Structural Racism in U.S. History: Policies, Institutions, and Health

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Summary

This lesson traces how early U.S. history established systems of racial domination that shaped later institutions. It covers the dispossession of Native Americans, slavery, emancipation, and the promises and limits of Reconstruction.

Violence against Native American people began with European arrival and continued through colonial expansion and U.S. government policy. The U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Native Americans from its establishment through the late nineteenth century. Policies repeatedly threatened tribal land and autonomy.

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Structural racism
Policies, institutional practices, and social arrangements that produce and maintain racial inequities.
White flight
The movement of White residents from urban areas to suburbs, often alongside barriers to suburban housing for people of color.
Restrictive racial covenant
A property agreement that barred homeowners from selling to buyers of specified racial groups.
Social disinvestment
Reduced investment in a community’s homes, schools, businesses, infrastructure, and services.
Racial profiling
Suspecting someone of wrongdoing based on racial stereotypes rather than individual behavior.

Quiz questions

  1. What doctrine did the Supreme Court uphold in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) to justify racial segregation?Answer: Separate but equal.
  2. What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?Answer: Racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
  3. What did Executive Order 9066 enable during World War II?Answer: The forced detention of Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens.
  4. What did the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) neighborhood maps grade?Answer: Neighborhoods by perceived lending risk, partly using residents’ racial and ethnic composition.
  5. Under the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which crack-to-powder cocaine quantity ratio triggered the same five-year minimum sentence?Answer: Five grams of crack to 500 grams of powder cocaine, a 100:1 ratio.

Based on Population Health for Nurses by Jessica Ochs, Sherry L. Roper, Susan M. Schwartz (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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