Edit: this question has been answered now. Thank you to everyone who took the time to help me understand.

the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour.

Okay… But we can take a DNA test and get our ancestry, telling us what percentage of what races make up our overall ethnicity. So how is race a social construct and not a biological feature, when we have a scientific method to determine our race? This part of the philosophy has been bothering me ever since I read it, and I’ve been hesitant to ask because of how offensive people get when you question this system.

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    How does science determine race?

    What if instead of skin color, we separated people by hair or eye color only?

    Genetics determine a wide variety of things, and we chose a few to group ourselves by.