Brown (2003) argues that the white race is a dominant race (p.37). The dominant race was white, excluding non-whites from certain class privileges such as the right to have better healthcare similar to that of someone of white ethnic origin. This led to the emergence of a racial formation aimed at dividing whites from blacks based on their racial identity. A person with a non-white racial identity is sometimes referred to as "other," meaning not of, but of, a different race. category {grouping of people based on racial and ethnic identity}. The grouping of people into different racial categories is reinforcing racism in relation to maintaining the dominant and powerful white race.