Autobiographical Account of Racial Relations in the Community

My Autobiographical Account of Racial Relations in My Community

"Despite my time studying race and ethnicity, I have been in the racial minority very seldom;" such has often been my own life as well (McKinney 2004 p 19). The community I reside in is typically a white majority, but has been developing to come into closer proximity to other minority groups. While these groups are not directly targeted for discriminatory purposes by the white majority in the community, there is clearly a line drawn between minority groups and the more established white residents of the community. Essentially, I have seen within my own community a growing sense of color-blind racism, where the racial structures are not so overtly stated, but rather implicit and hiding just underneath the surface.

The community I have lived in for years is a relatively smaller one, which...
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