The Invention of Race

Ryan DeLuca

March 25, 2019

ENG 123

Dr. Drown

The Invention of Race

While I listened to the podcast “The Invention of Race” I kept in mind my meaning of race which is a means to classify people. The podcast talks about how race became a thing and who was the perpetrator that made one race more superior than the other. The Podcast also talked about how closely related we are to people of different colors and how we actually aren’t different at all, we all originated from the same area back before the continents split apart we were all black at one point, there was no difference in color but when we humans parted ways to colonize around the world there were different climates that didn’t require the dark skin anymore and over time the people in the less sunny colder climates slowly lost the darkness in there skin. There is also a claim that Race is biological and real, but scientist don’t agree and actually anthropolinguist from the 1940’s are the ones who made the statement that Race is real and one race is superior over the other. The first people who started suppressing other peoples because of the skin color and enslaved them were the westerners according to Suzanne Plihcik.