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not seen as the same racial group as those from England or Nordic countries. Yet, over time Irish and Italians assimilated and were perceived as white. Their racial classification determined their treatment and social standing in the United States. Europeans and Caucasian Americans accepted the concept of racial categories, claiming that white people were superior. With the support of conventional white supremacy, white people were able to enslave, torture, and murder black Americans without consequences.3
Although racism refers to the overarching belief that certain racial groups are superior to other groups, there are different types of racism. Institutional racism- one of the most widely known forms- is a type of racism that has been created into a system that favors the racial majority, which is woven into all facets of society, preventing the racial minorities from thriving economically and socially. All different forms of racist logic served as the foundation for social, economic, and governmental discrimination against minorities, specifically black Americans and Jewish people, in the United States and Germany respectively.
Throughout the 20th century, discriminatory governments created laws that suppressed and harmed racial minorities in numerous countries. The racism directed at Jewish people during World War II and black Americans in the southern United States was institutional. This is proven by the multitude of systematic prejudicial policies in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow laws in the United States. This institutional racism occurred within an occupational, educational, and legal
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Nineteenth Centuries.
The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism in the Eighteenth and
George M. Fredickson, “
” Princeton University Press.
http://www.lawrenceblum.net/uploads/2/7/5/8/27583233/fredrickson-ch2.pdf
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