racial category
Frequency: 7.211.5 per million words
a classification based on race
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Examples (10)
- Census forms often require individuals to select a specific racial category.
- Sociologists argue that any racial category is a social construct, not a biological reality.
- Historically, the concept of a rigid racial category was used to enforce inequality.
- Due to his mixed heritage, he never felt he fit neatly into a single racial category.
- The study analyzed health disparities across every major racial category.
- Defining a person by one racial category can oversimplify their complex identity.
- Some people challenge the very existence of a racial category as a valid way to classify humans.
- The artist's work explores the fluid and often arbitrary nature of the racial category.
- New government guidelines are changing how data on each racial category is collected and used.
- The court ruled that using a racial category for university admissions was unconstitutional.