With their right hand across their hearts, the children pledge to a country that supposedly guarantees liberty and justice for all. Moraga and Affirmative Action. Economy and Racial Construction. The term race is used freely in society, but few truly understand its meaning. Many have false assumptions that there are great genetic variances between races that allow people to be categorized into separate racial throngs, but this notion is biologically false.
Race is constructed by society.
It is a plastic term whose definitions are as fluid and different as the varying ideas of society. Consider the complex, intertwining scripts of race, gender, class, sexuality, etc. America s Blighted Chimera of the Rugged Individual. America is a connoisseur of hypocrisy. Its Constitution its primary foundation guarantees all of its citizens the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.