<Tab/>Social Construction of Race in America

In the 19th Century, Europeans came to believe that they were naturally, biologically and racially superior to the people they had conquered and colonized. Because of this movement, many people came to believe that different races were separate due to biological and evolutionary factors, with white people as the dominant, stronger and more intelligent race and people of color as the inferior, less able races. Race mattered, and still does, in the United States because …

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