Assistant Editor, History. In a short essay published earlier this week, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch wrote that the recent killing of George Floyd in Minnesota has forced the nation to do so. ~ racism, the belief that humans can be divided into distinct and exclusive biological entities called "races", that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality and other cultural and behavioral characteristics and that certain breeds are naturally superior to others. The term also applies to the political domain. The thesis plan generally follows a standard format and includes the following sections: Title page: This page includes the title of the thesis, author name, department, university, and date of submission. Summary: This section is a brief summary of the thesis, highlighting the main points and conclusions. It generally contains -300 American racial and cultural groups. In the United States, people fit into a racial social hierarchy with white people at the top as the dominant group and people of color at the bottom. Years - Africans were forced into indentured servitude in Jamestown, Virginia until the end of the Civil War - the most people of African descent in America. ~ Slavery in America was the legal institution of enslaving human beings, primarily Africans and African Americans. Slavery existed in the United States since its founding and became dominant. The authors argue that sociologists use racism to refer to four constructs: 1 individual attitudes, 2 cultural schema, and two constructs associated with structural racism: 3 pre-existing consequent inequalities, i.e. racial domination, and 4 processes that create or maintain racial domination. The article compares this,