ABSTRACT
This chapter clarifies the relationship between race and physiology and explain why contemporary scholars almost universally reject the idea that human race exists in the natural world. It argues that before we are able to even address something as difficult as racism, we must first clear the brush around the idea of race itself. Only when we begin to communicate with each other with a clearer understanding that our use of the term race has built into it different narratives and, therefore, different histories and different entities, be able to understand the confusion that typically inhabits any texts about race. The chapter shows race is not as obvious a category as most people assume. It stipulates race to be a term used to refer to a category of our language and our social institutions that purports to classify people based on physiological groupings.
