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Race and Anthropology: Definitions

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What is race? What is the relationship between race and culture? Why is race so powerful?

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This solution provides an anthropological definition of race. It addresses the highly contested nature of racial categories, race's relationship to biology, the cultural impact of racial identities.

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Here are some general Anthropological principles about race:

Race is a perceived biological distinction between different groups of human beings. I say "perceived" because genetically, race doesn't exist (there is more genetic variety within so-called races than between them). How race is perceived, then, is entirely determined by cultural attitudes: race itself is a cultural construct. Different ...

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