RACE (AND BIOLOGY)

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- A cultural creation over time.
- Race is a concept that puts people into certain groups because of certain characteristics. The grouping of people is merely a creation of humans over time, and is not necessarily true or set in stone.
- In the Coronet film race was linked to biology because people assumed that race was a product of biology, and people are born with traits that fit them into a certain group. There is so genetic evidence whatsoever to support this claim.
- Hammonds said in the movie, humans created race and used it in so many negative ways, that we are the only ones who can unmake it.
- We classify people into races according to their physical attributes.
- (From Johnson’s “Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination”):
- White racism hasn’t been around very long
- The appearance of white racism in Europe and the Americas occurred right along with the expansion of capitalism as an economic system
- Plays a role in capitalism, privilege, and gender