Institutionalized Racism

Plus: The Birth of the "Policed Society" [] To ensure delivery of your JSTOR Daily please add daily@jstor.org to your address book. [] Weekly Digest [Web Version](6fa7/ct0_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] 6fa7/ct1_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA [] [Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus](6fa7/ct1_1/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] By Catherine Halley [] The United States has seen escalating protests over the past week, following the death of George Floyd while in custody of the Minneapolis police. Educators everywhere are asking how we can help students understand that this was not an isolated, tragic incident perpetrated by a few bad individuals, but part of a broader pattern of institutionalized racism. Institutional racism—a term coined by Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton in their 1967 book Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America—is what connects George Floyd and Breonna Taylor with Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Emmett Till, and the thousands of other people who have been killed because they were black in America. This context seems vital for discussions both inside and outside the classroom. We've compiled a list of articles, published over the course of JSTOR Daily's five years, which try to provide such context. [] [Read More](6fa7/ct1_2/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] [] [] 6fa7/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA [] [The Birth of the “Policed Society”](6fa7/ct2_1/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] By Livia Gershon [] Over the course of the nineteenth century policing became increasingly professionalized. [Read more...](6fa7/ct2_2/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] [] 6fa7/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA [] [The Linguistic Case for Sh*t Hitting the Fan](6fa7/ct3_1/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] By Chi Luu [] Idioms have a special power to draw people together in a way that plain speech doesn't. [Read more...](6fa7/ct3_2/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] [] [] 6fa7/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA [] [Fake News: A Media Literacy Reading List](6fa7/ct4_1/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] By The Editors [] Skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is the critical foundation upon which democracy may be maintained. [Read more...](6fa7/ct4_2/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] ADVERTISEMENT [] [JSTOR Daily Patreon](6fa7/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] [] 6fa7/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA [] [A Civil Rights Leader's Killer Sentenced 31 Years Late](6fa7/ct6_1/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] By Shannon Luders-Manuel [] Mississippi Civil Rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in his driveway in June of 1963. His killer wasn't sentenced until 1994. [Read more...](6fa7/ct6_2/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) [] [] [] Contact Us 101 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10006, USA [daily.jstor.org](6fa7/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) | daily@jstor.org | [@JSTOR_Daily](6fa7/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) | [Facebook](6fa7/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA) ©2004-2020 ITHAKA. All Rights Reserved. JSTOR®, the JSTOR logo, and ITHAKA® are registered trademarks of ITHAKA. Interested in advertising with JSTOR Daily? [Contact us](6fa7/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA). If you prefer not to receive email messages from JSTOR Daily in the future, you may [unsubscribe here](6fa7/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3AhOaeYU9bA).