This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race and “race relations to a new language that rejects “race as a descriptive and an analytical category. It examines the processes through which “racist social policies are enacted against Asian immigrants in contemporary Southern California
