ABSTRACT
Systemic racism and its white racial frame are essential concepts for understanding contemporary racial group dynamics, especially racial group conflict in the United States and other nations fundamentally shaped by European colonialism and slavery systems. The following provides some background on the conceptual developments of systemic racism and the white racial frame and discussion of the theoretical importance of incorporating analyses that deconstruct systemic white racism and the white racial frame. In the process, we identify the centrality of critical black thought in systemic racism analysis and highlight certain deficiencies of mainstream racial analysis.
