Prejudice plus (Institutional) Power

Education, 1970

A childlike Lacan-esque way to explain the hideous complexity of racism in formulaic terms.

A classic example of single-cause fallacy (oversimplification). The inflammatory phrase was coined by Patricia Bidol in her 1970 book “Developing New Perspectives on Race: An Innovative Multi-media Social Studies Curriculum in Racism Awareness for the Secondary Level”. It was popularized eight years later in British “thought leader” Judith Katz‘s “White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training”.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=prejudice+plus+power
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=prejudice+plus+power
• https://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/bidolpad.cfm
• https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Developing_New_Perspectives_on_Race.html?id=ZC9FnQEACAAJ
• http://centreforglobalinclusion.org/The-Centre/judith-h-katz-ed-d/
• https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yoFHSXoofoQC&lpg=PA43&pg=PA52&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false