ABSTRACT
Many of the world’s problems are human made, including racism. Sufce it to say that racism is a long-standing problem-despite the tremendous scholarly investigation for at least the last 60 years. With so much attention, why then have researchers been unable to cure this problem? Simply put, racism is multiply determined. Some causes of racism predict an unwillingness to desire a cure or change. Other models of racism predict a lack of awareness of that racism-thereby avoiding change. Still other models and associated data suggest that racist beliefs are simply well engrained, making it difcult to change those beliefs even if one wants to. Because of these disparate reasons, once one attempts to produce some understanding of a complex behavior like racism, one is also left with the realization that we as a science are far from any real answer.
