The view of Omi and Winant is that by being simply “inserted in a comprehensively racialized social structure race becomes “common sense” – away of comprehending, explaining, and acting in the world (Omi and Winant 1986, 60). While Angela Davis believes that structural racism is so deeply entrenched in the psyches of the collectives that it manifests as covert racism that mobilizes deep fears of Blacks. Both articles recognizes fear as an integral component of racism and color blindness as integral to the social structure of racism. Yet they differ in their view of how race serves people of color. For Whites race represents many dimensions, while for Blacks race produces the fear of crime and legitimizes structural
The view of Omi and Winant is that by being simply “inserted in a comprehensively racialized social structure race becomes “common sense” – away of comprehending, explaining, and acting in the world (Omi and Winant 1986, 60). While Angela Davis believes that structural racism is so deeply entrenched in the psyches of the collectives that it manifests as covert racism that mobilizes deep fears of Blacks. Both articles recognizes fear as an integral component of racism and color blindness as integral to the social structure of racism. Yet they differ in their view of how race serves people of color. For Whites race represents many dimensions, while for Blacks race produces the fear of crime and legitimizes structural