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From the anthropological perspective, lecturer Valerie Foster Githinji makes the argument that ‘race’ is a social construct to which people throughout history have attached biological significance.

Commentary: Race is a social construct

By Valerie Foster Githinji February 10, 2016
Indeed, the concept of ‘race’ as it pertains to human beings is scientifically null and void — but of course, it certainly has a lived, biological reality.
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