My general sense for a long time has been that racism is more _acute_, more immediate, but that as you write here, sexism is more intractable, "deeper" as it were.
Put every black family in a decent home, a guaranteed job with a guaranteed income (WPA style). Force a large amount of residential integration. Moe schools about so school integration is automatic. In other words, eliminate the major material factors which regenerate racism, and it would quickly disappear. There is no such path to the elimination of male supremacy.
Carrol
^^^^^ CB: Except that all the things you list - job inequality, residential segregation, school segregation etc. - have proven to be highly 'intractable". All the solutions listed were tried for about 20 years after the _Brown vs Bd of Ed_ case, and were vigorously opposed by white majorities. For example , in the Detroit area we had white flight followed by majority opposition to cross school district busing that would have partially negated white flight to the suburbs. So, the intractability of racism is very high too. The white majority have demonstrated this intractability recently by roundly rejecting affirmative action, in Michigan and other places. The racist disproportion of Black people, especially Black men, in prison is pretty intractable so far too. We can be sure it's many decades old.
By the way, the path to eliminating male supremacy is partly through affirmative action,too. For example, the pay differential between women and men, a main pillar of male supremacy today, has to be attacked through affirmative action.
The "acuteness" of racism is demonstrated by the fact that Black people have a shorter life expectancy than white people, however women have a longer life expectancy than men.