racial tensions
Intergroup hostility, ethnicity-based
Racial tensions are hostility, suspicion, or conflict between racial or ethnic groups.
The term often describes a collective mood rather than specific incidents—a city might experience heightened racial tensions after a controversial police shooting, or a workplace might have underlying racial tensions that surface during hiring decisions.
Racial tensions flared after the verdict was announced.
- police brutalityUnjustified force by officers
- stop and friskPolice search without arrest
- segregationForced separation by group
- Jim Crow lawsPost-Reconstruction racial separation statutes
- sundown townsSegregated communities expelling minorities nightly
slavery · Watts riots · stereotyping · implicit bias · wealth gap · apartheid · prejudice · civil rights movement · voter suppression · ethnicity · hate crimes · reconciliation · decolonization · redlining · school busing · bias · color blind · dog whistle politics
- 1920s AmericaCharles Lindbergh, Jazz Age, Spirit of St. Louis, flappers, transatlantic flight
- Civil War aftermath13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, freedmen, Reconstruction, sharecropping
- Southern HistoryDeep South, Antebellum, Old South, Dixie, Confederate
- Reconstructionfreedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, carpetbaggers
- South African Historyapartheid, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, Soweto, Sharpeville
- racismwhite supremacy, bigotry, segregation, hate crime, antisemitism
racial tensionsracial harmony
Peaceful multiethnic coexistence
racial reconciliation · racial unity · racial solidarity · cross-cultural understanding · racial integration
racial tensionssocial cohesion
Group unity and belonging
racial integration · inclusive society · melting pot · social inclusion