Why do we conceptualize race as a matter of power

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Discussion Post: Race Social Construct Not Genome

Omi and Winant define race as "a concept that signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies. Although race is not an objective, biologically determined reality, neither is it a mere illusory concept we can dispense with to enter a utopian ‘post-racial' society. Instead, race is an element of social structure."

Read the sections and subsections for "Race is not Genetic" and "History."

Prompt: If there is such little difference between humans on a genetic level, why do we conceptualize race as a matter of power, social identity, and placement instead of conceptualizing it as an individual attribute?

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