Essay 4 Prewriting-2

In Biewen’s “The Invention of Race” the three most important topics that struck me were about the three human races, the greeks and the founding fathers. He explains that even though together as one we are all the genetically. Humans have a 99.9% match. However, he talks about three classifications of humans. The first being caucasoid, which he calls the dominant race, and the second being mongoloid. The final one being negloid. They are placed in order of superiority. He beings to lead into the topic using the superiority term.  Although they saw no race, they believed their culture was superior to others. The final most important thing that got my attention was the phrase he said is that the founding fathers built the United States on white dominance. Because race has had such a strong history in the states race has become an identity instead of a trait. After listening to this it has brought many different perspectives to my attention on how race effects certain people and what can be done to help end racism