The Social Origins Of Race

This is the first in a projected four-report series called “Race and Racism in the Americas.” We intend it to set the tone for that series by focusing on the cultural and social origins—and cultural construction—of race. In this first report we look at the roles played by race in the organization of exclusion, at the ways in which oppressed and subjugated groups are imagined and represented by other groups, and at the ways in which these images and representations can be both internalized and resisted in the formation of racial identities.