What are the causes of racial discrimination in the USA?

For centuries, racial discrimination has been a complex and confusing problem in the United States. Through this lesson, you'll learn how to define racial discrimination and explore by way of examples some of its more common causes. read more

Systemic societal discrimnation reduces competition for jobs, wealth, education. When it was legal to discriminate openly against women, Jews, racial minorities in higher education, white men had a lot less competition. read more

There are several factors that play into institutional racism, including but not limited to: accumulated wealth/benefits from racial groups that have benefited from past discrimination, educational and occupational disadvantages faced by non-native English speakers in the United States, ingrained stereotypical images that still remain in the society (e.g. black men are likely to be criminals). read more