In my mind, they've always been interchangeable terms. Maybe you and others have a deeper understanding as to what 'race' is (or is supposed to be). When people said, "Race is a social construct," I thought of race as the colour/other minor differences between all of us and I'd respond, "Race isn't a construct, the values we attach to it…
In my mind, they've always been interchangeable terms. Maybe you and others have a deeper understanding as to what 'race' is (or is supposed to be). When people said, "Race is a social construct," I thought of race as the colour/other minor differences between all of us and I'd respond, "Race isn't a construct, the values we attach to it is." Because yeah, we choose to attach arbitrary values to certain ways people look, but eye colour isn't one of them, nor is hair colour. So when we talk about 'racism' we're often speaking about discrimination against people with different skin colours; 'antiracism' is fighting bigotry & discrimination against other 'colour' groups. Scientists talk about 'ancestry' and that's a much better description of the concept formerly known as 'race', but then what else do we call it? No one seems to know. Anyway, you got a mention :) https://nicolechardenet.substack.com/p/race-is-a-social-construct-but-color
In my mind, they've always been interchangeable terms. Maybe you and others have a deeper understanding as to what 'race' is (or is supposed to be). When people said, "Race is a social construct," I thought of race as the colour/other minor differences between all of us and I'd respond, "Race isn't a construct, the values we attach to it is." Because yeah, we choose to attach arbitrary values to certain ways people look, but eye colour isn't one of them, nor is hair colour. So when we talk about 'racism' we're often speaking about discrimination against people with different skin colours; 'antiracism' is fighting bigotry & discrimination against other 'colour' groups. Scientists talk about 'ancestry' and that's a much better description of the concept formerly known as 'race', but then what else do we call it? No one seems to know. Anyway, you got a mention :) https://nicolechardenet.substack.com/p/race-is-a-social-construct-but-color