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Social Construction of Race

RACE is not a biological reality.   RACE is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT.

A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT is a “human invented” idea, concept or classification system *

However, even though “Race as Biology is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem is Real.” **

 
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RESOURCES

* Ta-Nehisi Coates (2013)  What We Mean When We Say ‘Race is a Social Construct’.  The Atlantic.

** Smedley & Smedley (2005) Race as Biology is Fiction, Racism as a Social Problem is Real.  Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of Race. 

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