The International Cooperative Alliance defines a cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. 1  Cooperatives may include:
Institutional racism as it's formally called is racism that occurs in our institutions such as places of education and schools, the health care system, in the provision of public services, employment and housing.his is racism that occurs in informal settings, things like when you go to the shops and the store assistant serves you last or doesn't serve you at all! Once again on the basis of the color of your skin or perceived ethnicity.
A piece for National Public Radio (Gene Demby, The Ugly, Fascinating History of the Word 'Racism', 6 January 2014) cites the Oxford English Dictionary to the effect that the first use of the word racism (in English) was by Richard Pratt in 1902, five years after Malato's use of raciste and racisme in French.rotsky is not responsible for the fact that the word racist has been given a negative connotation in the English language. Anti-racists, especially in mass-media, are responsible for that.