Abstract

Race is not an empirical social category but it is social in as much as it is an ideological construct signifying a 'set of imaginary properties of inheritance which fix and legitimate real positions of social domination or subordination in terms of genealogies of generic difference'. When 'race' is naturalized racism is viewed as an external problem not an integral part of capitalism.

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Introduction3

Discussion3

Race as a biological construction4

Race as a social construction4

Conclusion4

Works Cited5

Social and Biological Construction of Race

Introduction

Race, racism and ethnicity are interrelated concepts but it is important that they are not elided in critical research. In one sense, race ...