race refers to skin color. From a genetic point of view, race does not exist, but culturally, communally, and socially, race is real; source of rich sociocultural differences as well as heart-wrenching injustices and cruel inequalities. Smith's definition of classism, as including prejudice plus power, can also be used to define racism. From a structural point of view, then, racism is the sin of white folk. Cheryl Harris, in “Whiteness as Property,” refers to whiteness as “not only race, but race…
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