Structural discrimination (or institutional discrimination): conceptual framework to understand racial economic inequality that focuses not on individual prejudice as the root cause of inequality, but that acknowledges that the structural organization of institutions that disadvantages minorities (unintentionally or intentionally)[example: minority children go to inferior, underfunded schools because the public school system mandates that children attend the school in their neighborhood. The persistence of residential segregation ensures that minority children are much more likely to be segregated in lower income neighborhoods and hence, underfunded and lower quality schools.