What can persist after legal abolition?
Your list can be understood like this:
Social practices
What people do.
Example:
discriminatory treatment of Black people.
Social attitudes
What people believe or assume.
Example:
beliefs that Black people are naturally inferior.
Economic relationships
How people are positioned in relation to production, labor, property, and income.
Example:
landowner and landless worker.
Institutional patterns
Established ways in which institutions operate.
Example:
racial exclusion within political or educational institutions.
Legacies
The continuing effects of earlier historical conditions.
Example:
the effects of having been denied property accumulation under slavery.
Racial hierarchies
Differences in social status and power associated with race.
Importantly, after emancipation this is not necessarily the same legal hierarchy that existed under slavery.
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