In today’s American society, and most other places around the world, one’s race, ethnicity, ethnic background, or whatever other politically correct title one wishes to attach to this phenotypic identifier, is as plain as the nose on one’s face. For many, in the “dominant culture,” ethnic identity serves as a convenient way to separate the “haves” from the “have nots,” and the “brutes” from the “civilized.” Not only is ethnicity used as …showed first 75 words of 1998 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1998 total…of color, and the general relationship between the Contract and race. the "reality of group domination" (p. 7). In the contemporary context, white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, are the core phenomena through which societies are to be understood, and in response to which normative political philosophy has its point. The task, taken broadly, is to understand how group domination "arises out of social processes" (p. 7), and how it replicates itself over time in society as a whole.