How the Brain Invents Race

Race is a social construct. But it’s a perceptual construct first.

Not a Doctor
The Science of Human
9 min readOct 28, 2020

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Race has long been described as a social construct: a framework used in dominance hierarchies to maintain power by those at the top.

We also hear people claim to “not see race,” presumably in an attempt to deflate the power from those frameworks.

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Not a Doctor
The Science of Human

I’m a PhD student studying neuroscience and statistics, with penchants for futurism, socialism, and Taoism. Am ruled by a tiny dictator.