ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a collaboration between anthropology and law in asylum cases based on race. It also proposes community engagement in, and partnership with, civic organizations, churches and law enforcement to understand the impact of race-related issues. Cultural expertise on race and racism calls for an understanding of the history and experiences of people who are racialized through a new theoretical approach to racialization and higher education in ethnic studies. One way to address these questions is to look at the application of race in various legal and community settings. In the US, race is taken for granted as a given category. People in the United States are constantly asked to state their “race” or ethnicity in market surveys, on a visit to a doctor's office, when applying for a bank loan and for admission to a university. They are supposed to know what race they belong to.
