Election 2012

[DanaC]

Nice post pierce.

The thing with race and racism is it isn't half as simple as it first appears to be.

Life is messy. Society is messy.

Race is one factor in a nexus of factors that defines an individual's experience of and place in the world. Race, class and gender in particular work together to produce a particular experience in society.

If a middle-class black manager passes over a working-class, white woman because he prefers to employ/promote black workers then she is experiencing racism. The power differential isn't coming from race, it's coming from a combination of class and gender, but the act of passing over is an expression of racism.