Identity Development Across Life Stages:

“As time evolves, we will have more and more difficulty “judging the book by its cover.” If we are truly to attempt constructive answers to the questions (“Who are we? How do we see ourselves? Who are we as a nation in relation to one another?), we will need to perform several social, political, and psychological “surgeries” to remove the deeply embedded insidious, pseudoscientific construct of race from our social structure.

Root (1992:9)