I have a PhD in sociology. You?
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Don’t you think it more accurately describes the actual problem of racism by moving it away from this idea that it’s someone calling someone else a “cracker”? Of moving it see from interpersonal to structural.
- I'd been wound up by some other sociologist making exactly the same claim about the word racism! 
Maybe (though I'm not certain - see Tajfel's work on minimal groups, for example). But you're not saying racism is more usefully or more accurately understood as being systemic, you're saying that the word is incorrectly used to describe the interpersonal (when it clearly isn't).
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Probably more useful - Basically, the way problems of racism often get dismissed is by saying, "Oh well I never called anyone a Ni##, therefore I'm not racism and racism no longer exists." But when we frame it this way, it points to the actual systematic problem (e.g prisons).
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