Legal Definition and Related Resources of Race

An ethnic stock . A division of mankind having in common certain distinguishing physical peculiarities as a class . Any group of people or any grouping of people having or assumed to have common characteristics. A nation . Also, a contest to determine the relative speed of the contestants.

noun

• ancestry
• birth
• breed
• class
• cultural group
• culture
• descent
• ethnic group
• ethnic stock
• extraction
• family
• folk
• genealogy
• genus
• group
• kind
• line
• parentage
• people
• phylum
• stem
• stirps
• stock
• strain
• Associated Concepts: discrimination
• race
• creed
• and color

verb

• accelerate
• bolt
• chase
• compete
• dart
• dash
• engage in a contest of speed
• enter a competition
• fly
• gallop
• hasten
• hie
• hurry
• hustle
• move at an accelerated rate of speed
• plunge ahead
• pursue
• run
• run a race
• run swiftly
• rush
• scamper
• scramble
• scud
• speed
• sprint
• spurt
• tear
• whiz
• Associated Concepts: assumption of risk
• race to the recording office
• racing commission

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Definition of Race

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Race: A classification of humans beings into different categories on the basis of their biological characteristics. There have been a variety of schemes for race classification based on physical characteristics such as skin colour, head shape, eye colour and shape, nose size and shape etc. A common classification system uses four major groups: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid and Australoid. The term was once popular in anthropology, but has now fallen into disrepute, because the idea of racial classification has become associated with racism – the claim that there is hierarchy of races. The idea of race categories also appears to be unscientific, since humans are able to mate across all ‘races’ and have done so throughout history, creating an enormous variety of human genetic inheritance. In addition the defining characteristics of ‘race’ do not appear in all members of each so-called race, but merely occur with some degree of statistical frequency. If the defining characteristic of each ‘race’ does not appear in all members of each ‘race’ then the whole definition is clearly inadequate.

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Notes and References

• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Race. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada

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Legal English Vocabulary: Race in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term race into Spanish: raza (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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Definition of Race

In relation to social issues, a meaning of race is provided here: commonly used to refer to regional human populations assumed to be significantly genetically different from each other, though in the same species. Anthropologists hold that this view ignores the vast amount of genetic diversity within any population and the minimal importance of differences between populations, so that race is used to refer to ethnic group (cultural) differences as though they had a biological basis. Recent DNA research shows that the amount of DNA variation within any population is more than 16 times greater than DNA differences between populations.

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• Community
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