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Segregation Drives a Self-Reinforcing Racial Hierarchy
Racial segregation—where whites hoard opportunities to themselves—is the central feature generating all three dimensions of racial hierarchy: it produces economic disadvantage and unequal standing, which places black Americans in disadvantaged neighborhoods with high unemployment, which fuels stigmatizing stereotypes, which feed back to justify further exclusion in a reinforcing loop.
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Elizabeth AndersonEvidence Quote
“So you have the hoarding of economic opportunity, which generates inequality of standing, but then when blacks are put into much less advantageous... neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, twice as much unemployment rates as white for as long as we've measured it... then people develop stereotypes about them, which hook into all rationales for slavery.”
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:29:50 AM
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