In reality this statement pertains to many peoples everyday lives, particularly those of African, Hispanic, and Native American decent. Institutional Racism can be described in a number of ways. It is mainly the failure to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their color, culture or ethnic origin that can be seen or detected in processes. In essence the minority becomes disadvantaged as a result. Institutional racism is in fact subtle, less visible, and less identifiable. In any case, it continues to be destructive to those that it affects directly as well as indirectly. Institutional racism deprives a racially identified group, equal access to a treatment in education, medical care, law, politics, housing, etc. (Schaefer 1996)

Terms referring to racism are challenging words in our society. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Asian Americans (people-of-color) live daily with the effects of both institutional and

Many argue that in the workplace, institutional racism some jobs tend to exclude certain racial groups, therefore not making it possible for them to be promoted as everyone else is. In many cases, the size of the business matters a lot. The smaller the business the more likely it is to engage in discrimination. It's very clear if you look at the hiring patterns of who hires more minorities versus who doesn't. (Allen 1990) Quite frankly, the smaller the employer, the more informal the hiring process is going to be. The more subjective the hiring process is going to be. The more subjective it becomes, the more likely it is that the line between accurate skill assessment and discrimination and stereotype starts to disappear. Many small establishments don't have human resources departments where they can make an accurate SKILL assessment and base too much on the ‘gut’ impression that a manager gets from an interview, an unstructured interview, and perceptions and stereotypes often make their way into that.

Latino males, interestingly enough, have the highest labor force participation. So while they have very high levels of poverty, Latino males are more likely to be attached to the workforce than any other group. This doesn’t make any sense. It just goes to prove how fickle institutional racism can be. It limits people from getting a fair chance in most cases.

Some topics in this essay:
European Americans, Head Start, Unfortunately United, Institutional Racism, Asian Americans, , institutional racism, D’souza Racism, people color, Native American, allen 1990, hiring process subjective, professional service people, failure provide appropriate, sort institutional, excluding people-of-color, people-of-color whites, provide appropriate professional, hiring process, appropriate professional service, schaefer 1996, failure provide, respond people-of-color,