Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Racism, according to Banton (in Kitano, 1985), refers to the efforts of a dominant race group to exclude a dominated race group from sharing in the material and symbolic rewards of status and power. It differs from the various other forms of exclusion in that qualification is contingent on observable and assumed physiological traits (Wilson, 1992). Said traits imply the inherent superiority of dominant groups; this superiority is then rationalized as the natural order of the biological universe (Minor Pinderhughes, 1982). By way of slavery and colonization, European Americans left no terrain of Western society untouched by their domination. After decades of domination, the mission to subjugate African American men has necessitated a universal, almost mystic belief in the power of race to elevate or taint (Hyde, 1995). Consequent to differences in racial heritage, racism has prevailed, at times, as one of the most subtle, but devastating, and tenacious social problems in the modern era (Hernton, 1965; Kovel,
Ronald E. Hall (Sat,) studied this question.