My issue with this thread and by extension the entire conversation is the academic tone of it all. It's a ridiculous and completely counterproductive way to talk about and deal with race and racism. As someone who has seen plenty of racism, I don't know how talking about anthropology is going to fix anything.
Treat racism where it is and how it is. Focusing on academic studies won't do anything to address how black people feel about Asians and the perception they are preferred by powerful white people and always have been. Or what to do about dark skinned, practicing Muslims being the "new ni***r."
When I was passed over for a job that I definitely deserved when I lived in Garden City, that didn't have anything to do with "cultural competency."
We know what racism is, we know why it happens, all of this other stuff are just ways to soft sell racism and make people more comfortable, because if they're more comfortable they're more likely to be introspective. To that I say bullshit. Racism is a sledge hammer, it's a pipe bomb in a day care. You don't handle that with a velvet hammer or with diplomacy, time for that has long passed, it's not working.