Title: Types of Racial Bias: From Colorism to Prejudice
Headings: Racial Bias and Discrimination: From Colorism to Racial Profiling
Racial Bias and Discrimination: From Colorism to Racial Profiling
Different Forms of Racism
Overview of Racial Profiling
Defining Stereotypes
Examining Racial Prejudice
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Content: Racism, for example, may refer to internalized racism, reverse racism, subtle racism and more. Racial profiling targets certain groups based on the notion that some demographics are more likely to commit certain crimes than others. And racial stereotypes are generalizations about racial groups that prejudiced people often use to justify excluding them from housing, educational, and employment opportunities. Familiarity with the various forms of bias and discrimination that exist in society may help to counter racial intolerance. Different Forms of Racism
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While racism generally refers to the systemic oppression of a racial group due to the idea that some groups are inherently inferior to others, racism can also be broken down into specific forms. There’s internalized racism, which refers to the feelings of self-hatred experienced by individuals from oppressed groups. Victims of internalized racism may loathe their skin color, facial features​, and other physical characteristics because the traits of minority groups have historically been devalued in Western society. Related to internalized racism is colorism, which is discrimination based on skin color. Colorism results in darker-skinned people from a variety of racial backgrounds—African Americans, Asian, Hispanic—being treated worse than their lighter-skinned counterparts by whites or even members of their own racial group. Subtle racism refers to the seemingly minor ways minorities experience discrimination.