Race

What it is race?

The term race is used to distinguish populations of animals (including humans) from another. Many regard race as a social construct. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and over time and are often controversial, for scientific reasons as well as their impact on social identity and identity politics. Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which any number of finite lists of essential characteristics could be used to determine a like number of races.

Race:

1- each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.

2- a tribe, nation, etc. regarded as of a distinct ethnic stock.

3- the fact or concept of division into races (discrimination based on race).