Race: The Power of an Illusion

May 2010

Has race ever crossed your mind?

1. What is race?2. What does it mean to be biracial?

3. Is race an illusion?4. Is there a social meaning of race?

5. What is a master race and who makes it?

What does race mean to you?

Jazmin from The Boondocks reflects on being biracial…

Who rules race? Though we live in a multi dimensional society, the social meaning

of race has not been made fluid.

Retrieved from: www.gocomics.com/boondocks

Embrace our differences!!!!!

• We all are different, but are our differences superficial?

– Race is a social meaning and there are obstacles that counteract the characteristics that make a race.

– Is race determined on how we look?

Let’s share…

• Race is not biological. Scientists have taken a closer look and determined that race is not solely based on genetic or biological similarities (Retrieved from PBS Documentary, “Race: The Power of an Illusion”).

• As a society, we tend to have a fuzzy idea of how people around the world look.

Kendra Shares Her Thoughts…

How do you think our society defines

race?