Why is race here? Why do we continue to allow it to be the cornerstone of our identity, investing who we are and will be into this social category, placing our children in its boxes? What gives it membership and belonging? Why does race have such power over us and presence within our society? Persons […]
I wish that I had the time to share all that I read and learn with you, all of the stories– historical narratives and personal testimonies alike. I wish that you would be fully persuaded that God does not love you like race does or as race says. Perhaps, this would aid in your understanding […]
Race is neither a biological reality or a scientific fact. “Scientists have actually been saying for quite a while that race, as biology, doesn’t exist- that there’s no biological basis for race. And that is in the facts of biology, the facts of non-concordance, the facts of continuous variation, the recentness of our evolution, the way that we […]
Race is a social construct, a human invention. “Since 1970 there has been a progressive decline in the use of the term race in anthropology textbooks published in the United States. This decline occurred most precipitously during the late 1970s, when either the term was no longer mentioned in the texts or the authors […]