The Social Construction of Race: Exploring the Intersection of Genetics and Power Race has been a highly contested and complex concept throughout history, with various definitions and interpretations. Omi and Winant’s definition of race as a social construct that symbol

Omi and Winant define race as “a concept that signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. Although race is not an objective, biologically determined reality, neither is it a mere illusory concept we can dispense with to enter a utopian ‘post-racial’ society. Instead, race is an element of social structure.”
Visit the website: https://understandingrace.org/
Read the sections and subsections for “Race is not Genetic” and “History.”
Race and Human Variation: Do patterns of genetic variation match races?
Prompt: If there is such little difference between humans on a genetic level, why do we conceptualize race as a matter of power, social identity, and placement instead of conceptualizing it as an individual attribute?
Requirements
Minimum 500 words
At least two sources, one source from outside of the course material
Thoroughly addresses the prompt
Adheres to due date