Institutional racism and ethnic inequalities: an expanded multilevel framework

Phillips, Coretta ORCID: 0000-0001-9796-7792 (2011) Institutional racism and ethnic inequalities: an expanded multilevel framework. Journal of Social Policy, 40 (01). pp. 173-192. ISSN 0047-2794

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The concept of institutional racism re-emerged in political discourse in the late 1990s after a long hiatus. Despite it initially seeming pivotal to New Labour's reform of policing and the antecedent of a new race equality agenda, it has remained a contested concept that has been critiqued by multiple constituencies. This paper notes the ambiguities and contradictions of the concept and considers its validity as an explanatory concept for long-observed ethnic inequalities in educational attainment and stop and search. In so doing, it argues for its retention, but only within a multilevel framework that incorporates racialisations operating at the micro, meso and macro levels.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information:	© 2011 Cambridge University Press
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	11 Jan 2011 12:26
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2025 07:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31350

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