""The function of race in a racist society (like Nazi Germany or Jim Crow America) was precisely to designate some people as more worthy of respect than others, and for many years as we all know, American universities tried to keep the wrong races out. Today, however, we're trying to get all the races in. The shift makes sense only in a society that, as we have seen, sees itself not as racist but as antiracist." (p 81)
It is not an accident that his parenthetical statement is meant to illustrate what a racist society is: Nazi Germany or Jim Crow America. that is because he only gives credence to biological racism. this particular chapter is an attempt to argue against the concept of cultural racism.
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