Human Race Research Paper

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There is an only race—human race, in the words of Nelson and Fleras, “human beings belong to a single biological species within a larger grouping or genes” (Nelson & Fleras, 2005, p. 173). Human beings’ changing in which all individuals participate and belonged, with species diversity contribute a distinctive human society. Race concept is often explained human diversity in society, and certain social issues. Meanwhile, the discrimination of human populations may cause certain problems in society, because people may use these race notions as a means of explaining and even quibbling what they have done, and as an excuse to discriminatory other people. For example, Nelson and Fleras mentioned, “Europeans were not the first or only group to mistreat …show more content…

Then, this essay will elaborate the attribute of race, and it has a series of potential problems, while it also references more scholarly materials such as Augie Fleras, to provide a better and proper understandings of race concept. Afterwards, this essay will give a brief description of the issues racism, privileges, prejudice, and power. In addition, this essay will analyse the relationship between race and racism, and how power is used to illustrate races as racially inferiority in society. Finally, this essay will provide various claims and proofs to sustain whole essay’s argument, and interpret view of race and social science. Overall, this essay concludes the article by explaining that humans’ diversity cannot simply defined the norm of race, and even for the reason that deprive the rights belong to human beings. All forms of discrimination are against with pursue equitable treatment and humanism, and all individuals deserve respected and comprehended by other racial …show more content…

The distinction of human populations based on an artificial consequence without any biological and scientifically foundation. Nelson and Fleras described, “racial types and typologies have been discredited as pseudo-science and dangerous politics, without any redeeming explanatory value or empirical merit, except to preserve privilege or exert control” (Nelson & Fleras, 2005, p. 174). However, the boundary between these diversities and what the racial differences mean is socially constructed, and races to be “social organization” is also constructed. In short, the major problem is that people usually assume others based on their external features such as eyes colours or skin colours. The view of Usher is that “there are several social scientists that connects race with ethnicity to identify certain group of people by their religion, culture or nationality” (Usher, 2003, p. 379). Therefore, people cannot consider them as a social group, while ignore their culture and

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