“…A mechanism explaining the persistence of behaviors and institutional relations over time is the theory of behavioral path dependence, according to which once the social and political behaviors "of a community [have] proceeded down a certain path, the behaviors and culture of that community can become entrenched and difficult to reverse" due to inter-generational socialization and institutional reinforcement (Acharya, Blackwell, & Sen, 2018: 28). Research in this tradition focuses on historical continuities in processes of racial domination like colonialization (Hawkins, 2011), racially restrictive residential process (Bass, 2001), and the general demoralization of people of color (Keahiolalo-Karasuda, 2010;Tatum, 2017). Closely related are theories of structural or systemic racism (Sewell, 2020;Unnever et al, 2021).…”