Beverly Daniel Tatum on Teaching RaceRacism as SmogSmog Affects All of UsRace Isn’t RealFor You, Right Now, How Many Races are There?Racial Categories are Wildly Inconsistent Across both Time and Space.RacializationThe one-drop rule or multiraciality?There are no clear dividing lines in skin color or race in the human population.Race is a particularly poor predictor of genetic variationMyths of Biological Advantage Based on RaceLumping and SplittingRace is not Based on any Biological Fact.Instead, Race is Socially Constructed.Socially Constructing RaceRacism isn’t about individual acts of meanness, it is about structural advantages and disadvantages placed on people based on perceptions of their race.Racism Without RacistsColorblind Racism as a Tool for Denying PrivilegeEthnic Options: both the cost and privilege of being “white”Privilege as Brain RottingThe Politics of Silencing PeoplePrivilege and AngerSample Question• The following is NOT a good argument for the social construction of race:a) There are no clear dividing lines in skin color to demarcate race.b) Racial categories are inconsistent and dependent on time and place.c) “New” racism relies on cultural acquisition theories, proving that previous racial categories are used less frequently and are replaced by ethnic categories. d) More genetic variation exists within racial groups than between