Posts tagged race is a social construct
Posts tagged race is a social construct
Contrary to the popular belief that race is determined biologically, it is a social construction, a social invention, that labels people based on physical appearance. Possibly only 6 of the human body’s 35,000 genes determine the color of a person’s skin. Because all human beings carry 99.9 % of the same genetic material (DNA) , the “racial” genes that make us look different are miniscule compared with other genes that make us similar (Graves 2001; Pittz 2005)
(Source: invisiblelad, via sociolab)
