Race has power even if it doesn’t really exist, just like God. It’s been reified/made real through the practice of racism. Barbara and Karen Fields call this Racecraft, in their book of the same name.
“In biological taxonomy, race is an informal rank in the taxonomic hierarchy for which various definitions exist. Sometimes it is used to denote a level below that of subspecies, while at other times it is used as a synonym for subspecies. It has been used as a higher rank than strain, with several strains making up one race.”
I think the debate should instead be about which strain we belong to.
Race has power even if it doesn’t really exist, just like God. It’s been reified/made real through the practice of racism. Barbara and Karen Fields call this Racecraft, in their book of the same name.
My mind immediately pictured a racist version of minecraft.
I think the debate should instead be about which strain we belong to.