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Racism is premised on the idea that humanity could and should be divided into distinct biological groups or ‘races’, and that different races stand in a ranked and hierarchical relation to one another.
30 Οκτ 2024 · Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that ‘races’ are cultural interventions stemming from colonialism.
Defining race. Modern scholarship views racial categories as socially constructed, that is, race is not intrinsic to human beings but rather an identity created, often by socially dominant groups, to establish meaning in a social context.
In health outcomes, phenotypic marking by society as a mode of classifying socially defined races and the role of endogamy, epigenetics, and self-identified race as a proxy for genetic ancestry/precision medicine, respectively, were among the examples provided to illustrate how race is informed by and informs biology.
In 2012, we decided it appropriate to re‐examine views of anthropologists across all subfields to better understand current prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. 1 Here, we present that study to inform broader efforts to move scientists “beyond race” and to encourage—as we articulated elsewhere 2 —anthropology's embrace of ...
Race: an attempt to categorize humans based on observed physical differences. Racial formation: the process of defining and redefining racial categories in a society. Reified: the process by which an inaccurate concept or idea is accepted as “truth.”
“Race” thus evolved as a worldview, a body of prejudgments that distorts our ideas about human differences and group behavior. Racial beliefs constitute myths about the diversity in the human species and about the abilities and behavior of people homogenized into “racial” categories.