Indigenous People in Australia and Inequality

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 84%, Deakin University, language: English, abstract: Racism takes many forms, but at its core, uses these formed beliefs to justify and maintain a racially hierarchical society that either limits or entitles rights and resources on the basis of race. It may be overt and individual or covert and institutional. The discrimination experienced by the Indigenous people in Australia is an example of such inequality. Decades of cultural and physical genocide have left Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with complex challenges that extend deeper than everyday racism. We will discuss how institutional structures sustain and maintain a cycle of racism and inequality that is embedded in the education and justice systems.