![]() ![]() Some have thin lips, while others have thick lips. Some people have very curly hair, while others have very straight hair. ![]() The most noticeable difference is skin tone: some groups of people have very dark skin, while others have very light skin. It is certainly easy to see that people in the United States and around the world differ physically in some obvious ways. Most people think of race in biological terms, and for more than 300 years, or ever since white Europeans began colonizing populations of color elsewhere in the world, race has indeed served as the “premier source of human identity” (Smedley, 1998, p. A key question about race is whether it is more of a biological category or a social category. ![]() Let’s start first with race, which refers to a category of people who share certain inherited physical characteristics, such as skin color, facial features, and stature. ![]()
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