Quantitative Measurement of Structural Racism: A Systematic Literature Review

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Abstract

Structural racism “refers to the totality of ways in which societies foster [racial] discrimination via mutually reinforcing [inequitable] system” (Bailey et al., 2017, p. 1455). Yet, in educational research, conversations regarding how we capture structural racism from a methodological perspective are limited. This systemic literature review analyzed articles that named and quantified measures of structural racism explicitly. We included articles across disciplines of education, social sciences, public health, and medicine to explore how different fields conceptualize and measure structural racism. We provide recommendations for how the field of education might build upon research from other disciplines to examine, from a quantitative perspective, to explicitly measure structural racism's effect on educational systems.

Authors

• Amanda J. Davis Simpfenderfer, College of William & Mary

• Jingjing Liu, Florida International University

• Senttra Snowden-Gregg, College of William & Mary

• Ayse Nur Boos, College of William & Mary