SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: North American Fur Trade, South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands, 1969 White Paper
14 Dec 2016
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Human beings belong to a single biological species with subgroups differing on the grounds of variation in genes. Talk of human diversity is often termed as race with no initiatives to classify people based on color, physical, social, psychological or moral properties to these categories. Social interpretations of race regard the common categorizations of people into different races, often with tagging of particular racial attributes beyond mere anatomy, as more socially and culturally determined than (skin color). Such interpretations are often deconstructionist and poststructuralist in that they critically analyze the historical construction and development of racial categories. Members of society tend to rank themselves into hierarchies based on race with one race assumed to be better than another. Although traditionally in the us the category white has been ranked higher than black or other categories, this may be changing as people refuse to designate themselves into a category and as society itself becomes more multiracial.
