Structural Violence In America

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• Structural violence is one way of describing social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm’s way. It is subtle, often invisible in our social world and has no one specific person who or will be held responsible. In America, people live in violence through not invisible actions but in the form of thoughts and desires in the mind. So, type of violence that is not physical but that affect the health of the populations such as institutionalized racism, gender inequality, lack of access to adequate housing. For instance, an organization may respond positively toward one majority group of the community, but in a way, that disregards the minority groups that require attentiveness. In an analysis of feminist-led article conducted