Book Description
A method was developed to measure changes in institutional racial discrimination in the Army. Institutional racial discrimination is defined as a difference in what happens to people in an organization, a difference which is: (1) correlated with skin color; (2) results from the normal functioning of the organization; and (3) operates to the consistent disadvantage of persons of a particular skin color. This concept is operationalized into specific quantitative indicators. Differences in what happens to whites and blacks in the Army were measured using specific quantitative indicators derived from comparisons of actual and the expected numbers of blacks in certain situations or having certain characteristics.