Sunday, March 8, 2009

of race and stratification

The fact that race is socially constructed does not negate the fact that systematically different patterns of outcomes are produced within a racially stratified society.
-- Michael C. Dawson

from Black Visions

This observation seems particularly germane for this white-skinned HBCU alumnus...

And, as a side note, it would seem to apply equally as well to gender as a social construct.

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