Explain how race is a social construct

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Please explain how race is a social construct and not based on anything biological (i.e. evolutionary ecology, genetic variation, phenotype/genotype, melanocytes and polygenic traits, etc.) Conclude by discussing what we can do as individuals to combat the persistence of racism in our world?

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