The Meaning of Race: Race, History, and Culture in Western SocietyArgues that the social meaning of race emerges from a contradiction between the ideology of equality and the reality of inequality Today, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their race. And yet, people are continually categorized according to their race Afro Caribbean, white, Jewish though we often have difficulty in defining just what race is.