Race is a shifting disposition, not a fixed category.

Evidence

Contrary to what we are told, then, the race problem does not involve understanding the pathologies of black culture, the failures of black families, or the so-called dim intellect of a race. The problem does not entail the question of what black people want. For Baldwin, the problem rested at the feet of white America. All they had to do was look down. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 335 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century race was a loose cultural term, not a fixed category. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 69; Racial identity is a dynamic bricolage, not a fixed biological given.; Race is a culturally invented discursive category used to inferiorize groups. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1106 (+20 more)

Broader Connections

• The race problem is a white problem, not a black pathology. #complicates (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 335