Barack Obama described the experience of thousands of marginalized people who were stranded in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the federal government’s response to the disaster as “a continuation of passive indifference …” rather than “evidence of active malice.” This statement alludes to the concept of structural racism. Define structural racism in your own words and describe two ways in which structural racism was evident in shaping human experiences in Hurricane Katrina.

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