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The chapter discusses that race is not a biological term by citing the human genome analysis and mixed ancestry (97.3%) and multiple ancestries (96.8%) with global sample. The chapter elaborates racism, racial prejudice, and racial discrimination from social categorization theory which is the foundation of ethnocentrism (e.g., ingroup favoritism, attribution error, social projection, asymmetric perception). The chapter emphasizes that racism is socially constructed and social structure perpetuates injustice and the role of unconscious in constructing internalized privilege and oppression and invisibility of privilege and visibility oppression as barriers to racial equality.

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