This chapterRacial Perception explores the psychosocial dimensions of racial perceptionRacial Perception, emphasizing its learned and socially constructed nature rather than an innate visual capacity. It critiques the assumption that blindnessBlindness and Race limits racial understanding, arguing that both blind and sighted individuals acquire racial perception through cultural practices and intersubjective processes. Drawing on Vygotsky’s concept of social compensationSocial Compensation and Obasogie’s findings, the chapter demonstrates that blind individuals participate fully in the social construction of race, despite lacking visual access. It examines verbalismVerbalism as a strategy for negotiating a visuocentric culture and highlights how language mediates racial meaning-making beyond sensory experience. Ultimately, the chapter contends that racial perception is shaped by social demands and situational contingencies, not by vision alone. This perspective challenges ableist assumptions and underscores that the mechanisms enabling racial perception operate similarly for blind and sighted individuals, ensuring their integration into a racialized society.