Functional Explanation Again

[Kelley Walker]

At 09:54 PM 3/22/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>I _specifically_ excepted black hatred of whites, which I regard as not 
>unreasonable, although unfortunate. I think it's racism, though, when 
>Asians--today a privileged group, though not historically, and of course 
>not all Asians--hate blacks. Or when Jews do. Bear in mind, when my Jewish 
>ancestors came to this country, Jews weren't white. In Japan, anti-black 
>racism is fairly ferious; also anti-Chinese and anti-Korean racism. 
>(Right. Yoshie?)
>
>I agree, of course, that in America, anti-black racism by whites is the 
>benchmark of other racisms. But you seem to think that is an objection to 
>having a  term to pick it out, to distinguish it from other racisms. I 
>find that puzzling.
>
>--jks

why not race chauvinism?  eh?  or ethnocentrism, an older more typical word 
in the social sciences?