Kwame Anthony Appiah’s View of Extrinsic Racism

The presence of racism as the idea of discriminating against people based on

their racial, ethnic, or national identity is appalling. However, the very notion of
racism is rather ambiguous; particularly, Appiah (May, 2017) stresses that
racism as a phenomenon may have neutral connotations in the sense of
identifying one’s race and the key characteristics thereof (Kallen, 2016).
Appiah (Barr, 2014) specifies the brand of racism that he defines as extrinsic
(Barton, 2015). According to the definition provided by the author, extrinsic
racism implies an uninhibited aggression toward the representatives of other
races (May, 2017). Therefore, Appiah views extrinsic racism as the attempt at
attacking one based on one’s ethnic, racial, national, or any other type of
identity, which means that extrinsic racism must be deemed as unacceptable.