Structural racism: what it is and how it works The Conversation 01 Jul 2021, 04:42 GMT+10 From the moment it was published, the UK's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities' report was met with a media storm driven by both its supporters and detractors. Months later, amid continued division over the report's position that racism isn't pronounced in the UK, there's still some confusion about what exactly some of the report's buzzwords mean. The terms "structural racism" and "institutional racism" are among many of the concepts that have been mentioned in relation to the report's position on whether or not racism is ingrained in the UK.