LAST YEAR, a lawsuit against retail chain Abercrombie and Fitch introduced a new "-ism" into the American lexicon of prejudice: lookism. Abercrombie admitted to having a national policy of recruiting attractive people to work at their stores. However, anti-discrimination law entered the picture when Abercrombie appeared to have an overly inclusive definition of "attractive" as white.
This conceptualization should set off a bell in the heads of most Americans: Warning, racism may be afoot. Others might observe that, after all, race is defined by physical appearance. Warriors against racial prejudice have fought for years to make people understand that race is not a biological category, but a social construction of phenotypic traits like skin color. Technically, physical appearance is the only valid significance that we may attach to race. However, as society stands now, superficiality is one guise of a progressive brand of racism. While it is still an ideal to be attained, we are......

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