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Race is not as simple as epidural coloration or any phenotype for that matter. These racial borders are easily crossed and don’t even precisely map onto skintone nor anything deeper. Afterall, I do not become a different race by getting a good tan. Race is not biologically derived and indeed has a history to its social construction. Racialization is a distinct historical process. It has a story to it with consequences. This episode is ultimately about how race became a thing, as in how society constructed the ideology behind this abstract category
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8:50 Historic Mail
12:48 Spain
19:30 color racialization
23:17 science philosophy and anthropology
30:12 eugenics
37:00 Boasian cultural relativity
39:10 fascism and downfall
42:35 Don't Be a Sucker
46:38 revival
50:54 outtakes