![]() ![]() censes faces taxonomic meltdown, many Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition. ![]() Today, however, biologists and geneticists no longer believe in the physical existence of races-though they recognize the continuing power of racism (the belief that races exist, and that some are better than others).Īlthough science today denies race any standing as objective truth, and the U.S. By this reckoning, there were only three real races (Mongoloid, Negroid and Caucasoid) but countless ethnicities. "Most Americans envision whiteness as racially indivisible, though ethnically divided this is the scheme anthropologists laid out in the mid 20th Century. ![]()
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