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RACISM
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Part A.
For years people from different areas are going through struggle, either the struggle of
facing the challenges or struggle to defeat those challenges. It is widely known that society is a
constant conflict between groups where one dominant the other on the basis of power. One of the
profound phenomenons existing in society for centuries is racism, based on the similar concept
of superior and inferior (Chavez-Dueñas, Adames and Organista 2014). Racism has its existence
throughout human history and has been defined several times throughout the history. The aspect
that remains same is the fact that a certain group of people are constantly under oppression in
various ways due to the existence of racism. However, it is certain that oppression will lead to
revolution. Racism has been battled many a time with anti-racism (King, 2016). The paper is
divided into two parts where the first portion is regarding the understanding of the concept of
racism and anti racism, the second part of the essay on the ways racism is manifested in the
culture. The essay aims to discuss the concept of anti-racism along with the concept of racism
describing the theoretical understanding of racism. The concept of racism will be discussed with
well analyzed definitions of racism as well as anti-racism. Also, the essay will include a
substantive area revolving around this topic of discuss, the paper will discuss racism in
employment. The second portion of the essay will discuss racism in employment along with a
personal experience of racism.
Racism can be understood as a belief that a particular race is either superior or inferior to
another. It is considered that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by their inborn
biological characteristics. Racism is also called as racialism, that includes any action, practice or
belief that reflects the ideology of racial worldview (Crenshaw 2018). The ideology is that
humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities that is called as races

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which is linked between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, morality, intellect and
other cultural and behavioral features while some races are inborn superior. The superior group
dominates the oppressed group, it is a form of oppression where one racial group dominants the
people of other racial group. In which one is considered the dominant group and another is
considered to the minorities group (Hernández 2016).
Anti racism is a process through which racism is identified and eliminated by changing
system, organizational structure, attitudes, policies and practices in order to redistribute the
power and share it equally. Anti-racism is the active way that practice identifying, challenging
and changing values, behaviors and structures that perpetuate systemic racism. Through anti-
racism, the traditional beliefs are transformed and amended in order to remove the discrimination
towards the minority group (Abramovitz and Blitz 2015). Anti-racism is only applied to areas
where people are faced with racism. People across the world who are faced with racism are
gradually raising their voice against the racism.
Although the concept of race is ubiquitous, it is taken as something obvious and common
since it is visible and can be recognized easily. People can see the difference that exists among
them including the physical factors such as skin color and other physical signs (Johnstone 2015).
Therefore, it is often considered to be a normal phenomenon. According to sociologists, race is a
social construction which is not based on any sort of innate and immutable scientific fact,
however it is based on social concepts that describes the social meanings ascribed to racial
categories. Race is a category associated with the biological traits that the society believes to be
socially significant. However, it is not the biological difference that creates race a social
construction however it is the people’s understanding of these differences that shape the culture
lived by them. There are underpinned ideologies that favors certain group of people as the

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dominant group, giving them power to dominant the minorities of the society. For example, who
is counted as ‘black’ or ‘white’ in South Africa is different from someone who is counted as
‘white’ or ‘black’ in Australia. An ideology is underpinned in the social construction that favors
the white skin or the lighter skinned people, is the cultural belief that serves the interest of the
dominant group that is required in order to maintain the social stratification.
It is important to understand that race is widely different from ethnicity. Race describes
categories of physical appearance and a very small role is played by the by genetic biology in the
formation of ethnic group. In case of ethnicity, it describes cultural groups whose bonding is
forged through the process of social interaction. It is shared ideas of culture involving customs,
language and institutions (Healey, Stepnick and O'Brien 2018).
Anti racism is on the contrary is opposite of racism that aims to break the traditional
beliefs associated with the racism. It includes beliefs, actions and movements as well as politics
in order to oppose racism. Anti racism can be defined as the form of focused action including
inter-cultural, multi-lingual, inter-faith and inter-abled communities (Hess 2015). They possess
the intention of changing a system or an institutional policy, normal procedure that encourages
racism or a practice that sustain racism. Any exist sing behavior that has racist effect is opposed
by the beliefs of anti-racism.
The factor that is underlining racism for years is the power. Today racism is one of the
persistent social problems in society. Along with all the prejudice associated with the racism, the
issue is one group dominates the other group. The reason there is dominance and suppression of
one group by another is for they are threatened. The group in power is threatened by the
perceived loss of power and in order to sustain the power, the dominant group exercises social,