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For history class I need 4 page paper about Social constructions of Race.
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Running Head: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
Social Construction of Race
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE
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Introduction
What is a race? To many people, the race is believed to the shared social and physical
qualities of a given group of people. People have for a long time had a problem of having to
differentiate between various races. It has been hard to differentiate between African Americans
from European Americans, Latinos, and Latinos among other groups. It is interesting to wonder
how race has been constructed socially. In the United States, race matters as both social and
individual. According to Johnson (2017), it has mattered since the 18th century up too late 20th
century on who is white and who is black in the laws of the state. The focus of this paper is on
my understanding of race hence showing of how race is a social construct.
Many studies of the past have argued that there are some racial groups that are inferior to
others. Researchers assumed that race was only biological and that there were some racial groups
which had less ability than others. For instance, blacks were seen as inferior to the whites. People
used to use Phenotype to justify the exclusion of certain races and domination of other races. I
feel that the quote "survival for the fittest" applies well to the case of the dominance of certain
races. Today, a race is just a social concept since in the past people were more likely to divide
themselves on the bases of nationality, lineage, language an...