Race, Racism, and Social Construction

(Excerpted from the upcoming text, tentatively titled, White Supremacy and the Post Racial Color Blind Era: Exploring Visible and Invisible Whiteness and Racism in America — An Unbook Look)

Texts, studies, and discussions surrounding Race and Racism were already popular, principally in Academia within Sociology circles, with the idea of Race and Racism existing as social constructs. While history teaches that Race and Racism were undoubtedly constructed, many popular interpretations for their existences only added to the hundreds of convoluted narratives and characterizations of Race and Racism being formulated and presented in reference books and academic studies on the subjects. Moreover, the “social construct” of Race and Racism only provided cursory information concerning the root causes for either construction, and the term, social, also added both a pretense of legitimacy and plausible deniability for white people engaging as advocates or opponents in debate, even as Black people were literally living through all of the racialized inconsistencies and realities of its construction during the era and before.

In an article entitled, “The Social Construction of Whiteness, Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence,” Teresa J. Guess wrote:

“…the sociology of race relations has historically failed to take into account both sides of…