Sentences with phrase «human racial categories»
The human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture), and self - identification.
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Race is a political grouping created to support slavery and colonialism, and its boundary lines have shifted over time and across nations to suit political ends... For the last three centuries, science... has been instrumental in justifying the concept of biological races — and this century's genomic science is no different... Despite the scientific and political evidence, some scientists are attempting to modernize the myth that race is a biological category... What's new is that today's racial science claims to divide human beings into natural groups with more accurate precision and without the taint of racism.»
Racism, which sociologist Howard Winant defines as «that which creates or reproduces hierarchical social structures based on essentialized racial categories,» has fueled unthinkable violations of human life.
Two categories of non-discriminatory differentiation protected within a human rights framework are the right to express one's cultural identity, referred to variously as minority rights or cultural rights [109], and the provision of measures by governments to facilitate the advancement of members of certain racial groups who historically have been disadvantaged by discriminatory policies.