Racial dualism can be defined as the tendency to categorize people on the basis of skin color into two distinct groups: Black or White, regardless of ethnic background or cultural differences. This categorization is common practice in America and carries with it a variety of different advantages and disadvantages.
According to Steward and Bennett, “English (language) demands that a continuum be represented by its extreme poles rather than by concepts drawn from the middle ground between opposites” (Steward & Bennett, 52). They go on to describe how Americans assign positive and negative evaluations to each of those poles and the negative evaluations tend to be more specific. The polarizing of people as either Black or White can be con
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