History of Race | Racism | Essay

Running Head: HISTORY OF RACE
History of Race
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

HISTORY OF RACE1
Racism as a topic of discussion is as old as time for the history of racism is embedded in
the evolution of the races crossing boundaries in the hope of finding better and sustainable
condition only to find themselves categorized as ‘others’. According to Bonilla-Silva, racism is
the product of the society dividing people on the basis ‘races’, solely on the basis of nationality
and regions they migrated or immigrated the most pivotal example being the tribal people of
Africa who emigrated to America became the ‘Blacks’ immigrants (Bonilla-Silva 2015).
The lecture validates my thought on racism as a concept which is derived from the idea
that race is not merely a societal concept but is a scientific fact which has been proved by
different genetic researches. Colonization and war is one of the major causes of migration.
However, the scientific researches make it all the more complicated for it negates the division on
the basis of societal and national but shows the differences due to the climatic structure of a
place. The fact that race is not something which has been invented by the society but ‘racism’ as
a concept is the creation of society and the recognition of which is the major crisis of the society
we live in (Bonilla-Silva 2015). The races and their identity cannot be refused to be
acknowledged but its theory that puts one race as superior to others or is considered to be the
measuring scale of the superiority or inferiority of other races is the negative aspect.
The subject of racism has no doubt evolved in the United Kingdom but the identification
of the new form racism which is referred to as ‘covert racism’ by Bonilla-Silva and has been
rampant in the societal structure especially in the employment sector. The US system though
claiming to be democratic is still observed to be one of the most biased political systems where
the judicial system itself shows a more critical way of an approach based on the color of the
individual (Winant 2015). This is due to the psychologically embedded prejudice which
complies that the Caucasian or the White races is superior in all sense and has even been