Race masks real socioeconomic relationships and has no analytic validity

Evidence

Second, race is a social construction, not a biological fact, that has real-life material consequences. Accordingly, I adopt Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s definition of race as “an organizing principle of social relationships that shapes the identity of individual actors at the micro level and shapes all spheres of social life at the macro level.” That is, racism arises from racialized social systems in societies where “economic, political, social, and ideological levels are partially structured by the placement of actors in racial categories or races.” — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 124 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race has no scientific basis and is a social myth dating to UNESCO 1950. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 98; Race has no scientific basis and is purely social convention — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 98; Prevailing social science wrongly treated race as static and merely correlational — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 11 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Race is social construction with real material consequences, not biology #complicates (0.82) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 124