ocial impact. Satzewich argues that us!
             ing the term is more damaging than not, as the political implications of the using the term give status to racial agendas. He advocates the concepts of 'racism' and 'racialization' and goes further to define these terms. These words suggest active oppression instead of passive, inherent, culturally defined or biological social differences.
             After 15 years of research on the field, Miles, in the Does "Race" Matter? concurs with Satzewich citing three arguments:
             1) The use of the idea of 'race' to explain consequences of social outcome distorts and negates often complex social processes
             2) Academic use of the term 'race' influences the 'commonsense' as there is no way to control the way the public understands the term, so use of 'race' may actually "serve as legitimation not only of a belief in the existence of "rac
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