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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, people of color can not be racist.  Racism = White Supremecy.  Whites have the power.  Only White can be guilty of racism. [/quote]Scholars do not agree on this.  I know you read this in a Soc 101 textbook (which I can say because I'm as sociologist) but it is by no means the only definition of racism.

So can South Asians not be racist against blacks?  What about Chinese Americans?  Are they not racist against blacks?  Can blacks be racist towards American Indians?  Or are only whites racist against American Indians?  Are white Arabs racist against blacks or are they not racist because they're not of Anglo-American ethnicity?

I understand the motivation behind this definition because it is an attempt to evaluate the power imbalance between racial and ethnic groups -- which is something I'm wholly in favor of.  But to deal with it in this simplistic manner by defining every racial group except whites out of it leads to incoherence in addition to diverting our attention from the actual nuanced power imbalances between groups.  For example, what concerns me quite often is how generally every immigrant racial/ethnic group has attempted to step on African-Americans in order to get closer to whites.  A simplistic definition of racism doesn't help us address those complex relationships.[/quote]

not pp, but I would like to hear more about this. most scholarly definitions I've heard revolve about racism being about inherent, heritable, unalterable differences--that is, thinking blacks are physically different or less intelligent than others. So really the question of "is it bias or racism" is not about the action, but the motivation for it.[/quote]

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