Racism

Racism, "is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death"

- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Untitled #1, David Pulphus

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"The belief in the inherent superiority of one race over all others and thereby the right to dominance"

Audre Lorde,
 Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

"But all our phrasing -race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy- serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscles, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth."

Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Between the World and Me

"If racism is not merely a matter of explicit beliefs or attitudes - significations or identities, in our vocabulary- but also and necessarily involves the production and maintenance of social structures of domination, then the denial of invidious intent is clearly insufficient to undo it."

"The absence of invidious intent does little or nothing to unwind the social structures through which racism flourishes and is reproduced."

Micheal Omi & Howard Winant,
Racial Formation

"Racism has at least four dimensions: ( 1 ) it has micro and macro components; (2) it takes on institutional and individual forms; (3) it has conscious and unconscious elements; and (4) it has a cumulative impact on both the individual and groups."

Daniel G. Solorzano,
"Images and Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Racial Stereotyping, and Teacher Education"