racial disparities
Ethnic outcome gaps
Racial disparities are measurable differences in outcomes between racial groups—in income, health, education, incarceration rates, or other metrics.
The term appears frequently in policy discussions and social science: The report documented racial disparities in maternal mortality.
Unlike discrimination, which describes actions, disparities describes results, leaving causes open to debate.
- systemic racismDiscrimination embedded in institutions
- institutional racismPrejudice embedded in organizations
- two AmericasSocioeconomic divide within one country
- color lineSegregation by race
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
discrimination · poverty · Jim Crow laws · stop and frisk · generational wealth · incarceration rates · maternal mortality · wrongful convictions · environmental racism · judicial bias · healthcare access · law enforcement · implicit bias · infant mortality · wealth gap · food insecurity · digital divide · wage inequality
- prison statisticsprison population, incarceration rates, federal prisons, state prisons, female inmates
- race studiescritical race theory, systemic racism, institutional racism, white privilege, intersectionality
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
- Education Equityeducation equity, desegregation, school integration, affirmative action, educational segregation
- criminologycrime, criminology, criminal behavior, criminologist, criminalization
racial disparitiesracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
racial equity · proportional representation · level playing field · equal opportunity · closing the gap
racial disparitiesracial harmony
Peaceful multiethnic coexistence
racial integration · social cohesion · racial unity · inclusion · racial reconciliation