This excerpt from Race: Are We So Different? by Alan Goodman et al. examines how racism started in the United States as a power and class struggle before it developed into a racist concept. To correct misperceptions on race and human variation, the author explores the reality and unreality of race. He argues how race is real as a social concept, rather than biology, by how “we interpret differences and invest meanings into those biological differences”(23).
Race is a social construct based on "white supremacy”. The timeline from 1400 - 1800(42) demonstrates how a labor system of indentured servitude declined in popularity by mid-1600s and the enslavement of black Africans led to a history of discrimination. This change of status for the Africans
Race is a social construct based on "white supremacy”. The timeline from 1400 - 1800(42) demonstrates how a labor system of indentured servitude declined in popularity by mid-1600s and the enslavement of black Africans led to a history of discrimination. This change of status for the Africans