Americans are unique in the way they describe and define race and identify to

characteristics that other cultures view differently. Genuine racial identity and integration is a

necessary condition for eradication of white racism at both the individual and institutional levels.

Whatever the word "race" may mean elsewhere in the world, or to the world of science, it is clear

that in America the categories are arbitrary, confused, and hopelessly intermingled. America

frequently confuses the ideas of segregation, suppression, and struggle associated with our

history and imposes these ideas onto many black historical figures, artists, and people of

multiracial color. Because we live in a still-segregated world, the truth is that many white

Americans don't have the slightest idea what Americans of color go through with race and

identity. This is a dilemma in America today.

Langston Hughes, is one of many African -American writers who is more than aware of this

issue of racism. He wrote a short-story called, " Who's Passing for Who"? (Bohner 482), that

implemented the significance of the color of skin. Though racism seems to be dormant today, it

individuals and stereotype them just because the color of their skin. In my family, like many

African-Americans and minorities today will never understand how far along we have come.

I have been subjected to misidentification my entire life due to the color of my skin. The

Albin, Kira. "The Woman Who Changed a Nation." Figure 1/Photograph http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html. April 8, 2001

ago, multiracial offspring are not just between blacks and whites.

will probably never experience the racial diversity and tensions that have become a way of life in

and a part of American history. This is not to say that prejudice, discrimination, and segregation

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