Structure

Structure is defined as the interconnected systems of power that maintain the status quo through the systematic and systemic organization of ideologies, discourses, interactions and relationships within political, legal, economic and social/cultural institutions

Structures shape a community and an individual's access to opportunities, and is determined by several factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, religion, citizenship status etc.

Institutions affect the systemic & systematic organization of social groups/communities and individuals, and thereby their capacity for Agency

Mission Makeover (2012), Lucia Ippolito and Tirso Araiza

"I try continually to talk to my father about structural realities, policies and decisions as being even more decisive in the outcomes his life than any choice he personally made. I talk about the politics of personal responsibility, how it's mostly a lie meant to keep us from challenging real-world legislative decisions that chart people's paths, that undo people's lives"

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele,
When They Call You A Terrorist

"I am Joaquín, lost in a world of confusion,
caught up in the whirl of a gringo society,
confused by the rules, scorned by attitudes,
suppressed by manipulation, and destroyed by modern society"

Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
I am Joaquin,

"The central argument of this book is that U.S. economic and political domination over Latin America has always been -and continues to be- the underlying reason for the massive Latino presence here. Quite simply our vast Latino population is the unintended harvest of the U.S. empire."

Juan Gonzalez,
Harvest of Empire