Race As A Cultural Construct

Considering the article “Thinking Anthropologically About Race,” social scientists now understand race to be a cultural construction, not based on biology, but rather ideas we prescribe to biology. In other words, there is no genetic foundation for racial categories because you may be more genetically similar to someone in a different race than in your own.

Address one of the following questions in your post, or create your own question to invite discussion:

• What questions does this website raise for you? What does it really mean to say that race is not a biological reality?
• Should that change the way we categorize racial groups in American culture?
• Does this mean that we can be a ‘color-blind’ society?