What does it mean that race is “socially constructed”?
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Also, this famous experiment shows how easy it is to create “races” and to discriminate based on those arbitrary “races”. In a very real sense, race is just an arbitrary way to divide people up. If we wanted to, we could say Italians aren’t white, that Obama isn’t black, or that dark skinned Brazilians aren’t black. Think about it, why do we call Obama the first black president when he’s half white? Why do we never call someone who’s half white, white?
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