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Answer the question. This assignment draws upon lecture 2.5.
If the characteristics that we use to identify racial groups, like darker or lighter skin, are genetically inherited, then how do anthropologists argue that race is socially constructed?
lecture 2.5 - anthropology and evolution: race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB6LTOoCa78 (Links to an external site.)
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Running head: RACE AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Race as a social Construct
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How do anthropologists argue that race is socially constructed?
The term socially constructed is used to refer to an idea that is created by the society.
Anthropologists are one of the main contributors to the 20th century, where they used three main
key topics to discredit the colonial discourses,...