Racism accounts structurally include context, complication, evaluation, argumentation, and reaction

Evidence

The same point may be made, in extenso, for all those explanations which ascribe racism-in-general to some universal functioning of individual psychology—the “racial itch,” the “race instinct”—or explain its appearance in terms of a general psychology of prejudice. The question is not whether men-in-general make perceptual distinctions between groups with different racial or ethnic characteristics, but rather, what are the specific conditions which make this form of distinction socially pertinent, historically active. What gives this abstract human potentiality its effectivity, as a concrete material force? … Appeals to “human nature” are not explanations, they are an alibi. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 634 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism accounts share a recurrent narrative structure across contexts. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1501; Universal-psychology accounts of racism substitute an alibi for explanation — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 634; Stories about racist incidents follow a five-part narrative structure (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Stories about racist incidents follow a five-part narrative structure #exemplifies (0.95)
• Universal-psychology accounts of racism substitute an alibi for explanation #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 634