Social and Biological Perspective of Race in the Age of Modern Racism
Introduction
Confusion on the concept of race
Different perspectives of race
Consequences of the disharmony on the concept of race
Arguments on the definition of race
Biological perspective on the definition of race
Social perspective on the definition of race
Loring Brace definition
Pilar Ossorio definition
Definition by other scholars and researchers
The impact of colonial history on modern understanding of race
Basis of race classification in the 18th century
The unequal association of different traits to different races
Institutionalization of the inequality among races in the U.S.
Vast spread of the ideology of inequality among races to the rest of the world
Debate on the importance of the concept of race in science
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