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Ten Things That Everyone Should Know About Race

pauparazzi:

  1. Race is a modern idea
  2. Race has no genetic base
  3. Human subspecies don’t exist
  4. Skin color really is only skin deep
  5. Most variation can be within, not between, “races”
  6. Slavery predates race
  7. Race and freedom were born together
  8. Race justified social inequalities as natural
  9. Race isn’t biological, but racism is still real
  10. Colorblindness will not end racism

Ten important things to remember about race, taken from the material taught by my sociology teacher at FPF, Sanghamitra Niyogi.

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