social construct

What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’

By Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic “Our notion of what constitutes ‘white’ and what constitutes ‘black’ is a product of social context. It is utterly impossible to look at the delineation of a ‘Southern race’ and not see the Civil War, the creation of an ‘Irish race’ and not think of Cromwell’s…
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