Anthropology: Its Holism or Its Term Paper

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What does racism means if race has no biological basis?

Race may have no biological basis, but anthropology does not study biology alone -- race is also a cultural construction. An African-American man might have the physical DNA of European, Caucasian individuals within his genetic code, but because he is subject to the racial classification and potential discrimination within America, because America holds race to be an extant category, this does not mean that race lacks significance as a subject of cultural study. Race may be a constructed fiction, but racism, or the hatred that the cultural fiction of race has spawned, is real.

It is important to remember the lack of true 'races' in the world, however, when analyzing potential associations between groups. For example, even though they may be considered different 'races' by society, groups of marginalized persons subject to the culturally constructed notion of racism may wish to band together when resisting oppression.

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The lack of an inherent quality known as race also means that persons of different cultural groups, like recent West African immigrants and African-Americans who have resided in America for a long period of time, do not have a 'natural' connection based upon what is really a culturally constructed ideal, that of race, but may be subject to racism, based upon the way society views persons of color.

The lack of a biological basis for race highlights the irrationality of racism, but unfortunately it does not eradicate the historical effects of hatred. Thus it is highly significant to remember that there are no 'true' races, but one cannot use this to dismiss the cultural legacy of racism as a significant object of study, or a necessary fiction to maintain for persons engaged in….....

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