Race as a Social Construct functions as a tool of management that maintains the dominance of particular group. In the United States race as a concept was used as a justification for African Slavery and displacement of American Indians. It also believed and made the white race the most dominant force. The Idea of Race was put forward so that it could allow the White race to stay in power over the other races. In the US, racism started because the lower class people were about to revolt against high-class people and so the high-class people and politicians created the idea of Race to show how Blacks were even lower than the lower class people because they are slaves. We can see this because before slavery was established there were black immigrants who were property owners.
Race is not a social construct based on skin color, because people of the same race can have varying skin colors. Race refers to the physical and biological characteristics of certain groups of people.
We can see race as a social construct from the Supreme Court cases “Takao Ozawa, and Bhagat Singh Thind” Where the Supreme Court denied citizenship to Takao Ozawa because of his skeletal structures. They said that even though his skin color was whiter than white people, his facial structure was of the Mongolian race. They said that scientifically he was not white. After 3 months when Bhagat Singh Thind an Indian went to the Supreme Court for citizenship, his reason was that he was scientifically white because of his skeletal structure. But the Supreme Court denied his citizenship saying that even though he was scientifically white, when one see’s him they can tell he is not white because of his skin color. This took place in a period of 3 months where both the cases had the same judges but both the cases contradicted each other and the decisions that the judges made. Through this example we can