Assertion: white people's race | /r/HasProperty | concept
Facets:
value: with no scientific meaning
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: race is a concept which signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies.
text: Nell Irvin Painter begins The History of White People declaring that “because race is an idea, not a fact…its questions demand answers from the conceptual rather than the factual realm.
text: Race , the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences.
text: But just as there's been the discovery that race is a concept with no scientific meaning, there's also been a cultural movement to rerace knowledge.
text: Although racism and the discrimination that accompanies it clearly have measurable social and economic effects, race is a concept that should be described with verbs such as “to seem,” as opposed to “to be.
text: Race is a concept that “relates to physiological features . . . such as skin color, hair type, and shape of head,” the book explains, while ethnicity is derived from “a place on Earth’s surface.