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Race as social construction

The understanding that race is not biological fact but historical invention—categories like 'white,' 'Black,' 'Asian,' or 'Latinx' were created through colonialism, slavery, and law to organize power and property, not to sort naturally occurring human variation. Recognizing race as constructed doesn't make it less real; it makes its persistence a choice rather than a fate.

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