Blog 5 - What is Race?

The author’s overall argument is that race is social and cultural construction. It doesn’t exist because there are no biological differences, but the effect of it still does because the terminology is still used by groups to make others feel inferior. Appeal to Appeal to both emotions (pathos) and logic (logos) are used when the author talks about the history of the word. It was “developed by what was then a dominant white, European-descended population, and serves as a means to distinguish and control other “non-white” populations in various ways” (pg 646). He goes on to point out the erroneous nature of “race” and how it only accounts for physical appearance, not region or cultural. Instead ethnicity should be used because it encompasses cultural differences. We’ll continue to “wallow in stupidity” if we’re not educating people on the correct terminology.