Institutional Racism: Colonialism, Epistemic Injustice and Cumulative Trauma

Institutional Racism explores the role of colonialism, truth, and knowledge in creating and maintaining institutional racism through documenting how the manipulation of truth and knowledge facilitated colonialism and epistemicide to create the illusionary status of equality and justice in a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism.

The chapters present an understanding of how the concepts of epistemicide, critical race theory, post-colonialism, white racial frames, white privilege, and insidious trauma can be used to critique the discourses and mechanisms that sustain a perpetrator perspective of institutional racism and how these concepts facilitate a victim perspective of institutional racism that documents the cumulative psychological and physical harms of institutional racism. The second half of the book provides grounded case studies of institutional racism in the areas of education, policing, the war on terror, and Covid 19 to demonstrate how contemporary processes of colonialism and epistemicide maintain and reinforce institutional racism.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, criminal justice, history, law, and politics, particularly those studying on courses related to race, ethnicity, and theory and anyone interested in learning about racism and institutional racism.