Online Course | Understanding Structural & Institutional Racism

This free online course provided by BU School of Social Work was designed to help you expand your knowledge of the interlocking social systems and ideologies that are the foundations of racial inequality in our society.

There are three sections to the module, with each section taking approximately one hour to complete.

• Section 1 introduces initial core concepts that will be used in the rest of this module: political economy, racial capitalism, white supremacy, and structural and institutional racism.
• Section 2 takes a deeper look at white supremacist ideology, its influence on American society and how it can be deconstructed and otherwise contested.
• Section 3 concludes with a look at the history of antiracist activism in the U.S., and the role social workers can play in opposing racism.