Teresa J. Guess suggests that “When researchers fail to explore the construction of ‘race’, they contribute to the reproduction of ‘race’." Thus, researchers end up problematizing the topic of ‘race’, which begins to construct and reconstruct the social implication of race and racism that eventually characterizes a majority of society's perceptions of race. A broad synopsis may conclude that we, as a society need to remove the concept of biology from racial issues. While I am in agreeance, I believe before removing it, we first need to be aware of it. To simply talk about racism is defiantly controversial and at times unproductive.
“However, when race relations are grounded in scientific research and continue to be based upon normative and uncritical foundations, unfortunately consequences do follow.”
Unfortunately continuing to thrive, I believe ideas of race are socially constructed even with the defined intellectual study of historical research. In conclusion, I argue that race and racism are, and have always been, fundamentally a matter of social construction, not biological nor scientific definition, but as a society we have transformed it into a biological or even a scientific construct, even though it is not factually accurate.
SO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?????
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