Presents examples and non-examples of institutional/structural discrimination. View related curated articles on Flipboard / Institutional Discrimination at http://flip.it/sKV3WD
You've probably heard the statistics on how under-represented women and minority leaders are in American business, but they bear repeating so get ready to hear them again. Women make up nearly half the U.S. labor force but account for less than 15% of executive officers, and only about 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs. At 12% of the labor force, meanwhile, African Americans make up a small fraction of managers, and only seven head Fortune 500 companies. IT WASN'T JUST THAT MEN TENDED NOT TO GIVE UP POWER TO WOMEN; WOMEN DIDN'T GIVE POWER TO WOMEN, EITHER. Of the many reasons for this leadership gap, a strong contributing factor may be the hidden gender and racial bias that occurs when people in charge delegate power. A trio of psychologists from Penn State University document this uncomfortable (and perhaps unconscious) tendency in a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The result, whether intended or not, is that the heirs to business leadership tend to look a lot like those who already have it.
In America today, privilege is institutionalized. I've developed a model (Fig. 3, page 10) based on the works of Roybal Rose (1996), Chester (1976) and Wildman (1995, 1996) that includes both a “cycle of oppression” and a“cycle of privilege.”
Social Structuration is the process by which we are taught to perceive the world around us. The more we understand this process, the better able we are to decide for ourselves what values and principles we want to guide our decisionmaking and actiontaking.
The Cycle of Oppression and Privilege is a powerful method of Social Structuring...and it leads to devastating outcomes for both the oppressed and the oppressors.
We can change this! And, we start by teaching ourselves about it.
America has more than 5,000 prisons. This is what they look like on our landscape.
Begley’s images capture the massive scale of this entire industry and the land that we devote to it (America has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but houses a quarter of the world’s prisoners). His website, in fact, includes only about 14 percent of all of the prisons he’s captured (each one is scaled to the same size).
Tags: remote sensing, land use, geospatial, landscape.
This article is interesting from a geographic and social perspective, because the overhead pictures show just how much we alter the land with our prisons. What is really interesting is how the US has less than five percent of the world's population but has one quarter of its prisoners. Because of this, it can be inferred that the country has many prisons. Yet, what astonished me about the prisons is that they seem to be out in the middle of nowhere. The buildings seem expansive on the landscape and dominate it. It just makes me wonder, how much does the United States spend on building and up-keeping these complexes.
This article explores a graphic representation of the quantity and volume of prisons throughout the United States. The project has no figures, statistics, or words - the pictures stand on their own as statements about the growing amount and size of prisons across the country. The photos show many rural prisons that house prisoners from urban areas, which changes both the areas where the prisons are and the areas that the inmates came from.
The photos are an intriguing visual of the money and materials put into prison systems in the United States. The photographer (Josh Begley) noted that upon seeing all the images together, the thing that stood out to him was that there were baseball fields in almost all of them. He says, "the baseball field mimicked the form about these buildings as well. There was something very American about it when I first saw it."
It's surprising to see how much material is necessary to, as the article described it, "warehouse" people. While prisons do more than just house inmates, seeing a visual representation of all the money put into prisons in the United States makes me wonder whether it could be better spent on reformed versions of prisons, rather than on maintaining the ones we already have and the new ones just like those that are currently being constructed.
These picture demonstrate the power of satellite imagery and technology perfectly. While I am amazed by the sheer beauty in spatial organization and design by these prisons, I am horrified at the maps incarcerations that are occurring in America, especially the mass incarceration of poverty stricken minorities in America. Prisons demonstrate a larger social issue than what I previously thought. I never knew that such a thing as prison-based gerrymandering could even exist. Prisons demonstrate economic and political problems as well. With more prisons, state must allocate more of their budget to supporting these facilities. The fact that so many prisons are being built demonstrate a larger problem in the political world, and that maybe there is an issue with the justice system. Fixing the system would allow for states to allocate more money that would have been use on supporting prisons to supporting education and helping those who are less privileged.
By Rebecca Schuman ST. LOUIS - Changes are afoot among us part-time adjuncts who shoulder a hefty majority of college instruction in the United States. We have, for now, the attention of Congress. We've got our own snappy hashtags! And...
Police forces across the country are still blighted by institutional racism, stopping and searching a disproportionately high number of black people and failing to recruit and promote enough people from ethnic minorities.
Five years ago, I jokingly said that adjuncts are the face of the new poor, but now the joke is a reality in many cases. While adjunct professors are the backbone of many colleges and universities, they are severely underpaid, under-insured, under-respected, and exploited. They earn a pittance of what full-time instructors or tenure-track professors make, but are expected to perform in the classroom with the same amount of vigor and accountability. I argue that adjuncts are held to standards that are more rigid than full time professors are in some regards. In turn, it places adjuncts in powe
Highlights from Martin Friedman's presentation at the USC Price Innovating to End Urban Poverty Conference. Watch the full version here: http://youtu.be/rTf32kyRzz0 Presented by the Sol Price...
This is the eleventh part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book ...
Media Watch is a series of reports looking at how the conventional media are covering critical issues, and offering an alternative perspective on the news. In this Link TV Media Watch, Robert...
If you are a boss, it's not enough to avoid treating your employees in a rankist manner; you are also responsible for making sure that your subordinates treat their subordinates with dignity....
University bureaucracies absorb large amounts of funding and undermine the alleged goal of college, which is to provide an education. But they also signal something more sinister: the neo-liberalization of education, now viewed as a business.
It started with a move by resourceful students who were able to unlock security settings on their iPads.
The disastrous $1 billion iPad rollout by the Los Angeles Unified School District in September 2013 provided a cautionary tale to districts looking to spend public dollars on technology and digital curriculum. But below the surface of the news stories were thousands of kids feeling hurt by the way they were portrayed by the media and the school district’s lack of trust in them.
To explore the aftermath of the scandal that put them front and center of that cautionary education technology tale, students at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights conducted their own research on how the rollout was handled, talking to peers and family members and ultimately painting a very different picture of the lasting consequences.
"An overarching issue that is essential for understanding many pressing events of the day is the fraying standard geopolitical model of the world. This taken-for-granted model posits mutually recognized sovereign states as the fundamental building blocks of the global order. Many of these basic units, however, are highly fragile and a number have collapsed altogether. As a result, the next several posts will consider, and critique, the conventional state-based vision of the world. I am skeptical of the standard 'nation-state' model of global politics, as I think that it conceals as much as it reveals about current-day geopolitical realities. This model, evident on any world political map, rests on the idea that that the terrestrial world is divided into a set number of theoretically equivalent sovereign states."
Tags: political, states, unit 4 political, geopolitics.
using and thinking about maps and Geo spatial data - The process of thinking about and analyzing maps is quite complex. Looking at this map, you would assume that all is well, all is how it should be, nothing is distorted and each state is similar to the United States. But, reflecting on maps involves deep thought and comparison. Each state is supposed to hold ultimate power over the full extent of its territory, possessing a monopoly over the legitimate use of force and coercion. Such states, it turn, are supposed to recognize each other’s existence, and in so doing buttress a global order in which political legitimacy derives in part from such mutual recognition. The territories of such states are theoretically separated by clearly demarcated boundary lines, which are further solidified by international consensus, without overlap or other forms of spatial ambiguity. Standard political maps are flawed in how they make the world seem to be. States are not all equal, and all neighboring states do not get along, possibly due to natural resources, ports, economics, language, culture, religion, nationality, etc.
Tim Wise speaks on the system of institionalized white supremacy, how it works, and how it must not be a part of any movement for a democratic society.
Dr. Robert Fuller spoke at University of Maryland as part of "Rise Above Isms Week." The talk was sponsored by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and the College of Computer, Mathematical,...
Four panelists--Kenny Easwaran, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Ned Markosian, and Mary Janell Metzger--answer questions related to diversity within academia. In an attempt to identify the reasons...
LIKE/FAV - This video is dedicated to a American woman who is facing discrimination due to her hair. According to her company they state - " Tower Loan does not comment on individual personnel...
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