ABSTRACT
Anti-race scholars believe that the race concept is a social construction that is very real socially but lacks any biological undercoating, that it is a bad thing, and that we should get rid of it. Race gains and loses its reality from time to time depending on a number of factors both scientific and ideological. The human genome project has reframed the race concept as geneticists look for evidence for its existence at the molecular level. Race is an ambiguous term fraught with historical, philosophical, ethical, political, and scientific disputes. Race is seen as something conjured up by Europeans and European Americans to justify colonialism and slavery, respectively. Social constructionists clearly engage the race concept as a normative rather than scientific issue. Race is dismissed as an illusion in the American Anthropological Association's Statement on "Race". Racism is under new management, and a research program has arisen under it devoted to demonstrating its continued existence.
