racial classification
Sorting by ancestry
Racial classification is the sorting of people into categories based on physical characteristics, ancestry, or perceived ethnic origin.
Such systems have been used by governments for census data, by scientists pursuing now-discredited theories of biological race, and by regimes enforcing segregation or discrimination.
The apartheid government maintained strict racial classification.
The categories vary across cultures and eras, reflecting social constructs more than biological reality.
- white supremacyDoctrine of racial superiority
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- craniometrySkull dimension analysis
human rights · phrenology · ethnography · eugenics · one-drop rule · phenotype · passing as white · caste systems · apartheid · identity politics · taxonomy · Jim Crow laws · color line · skin color · equity · ancestry · affirmative action · blood quantum
racial classificationcolorblindness
Impaired hue discrimination
race-blindness · personal identity · individualism · non-discrimination · meritocracy
racial classificationgenomics
Study of entire genetic sequences
molecular biology · DNA analysis · cladistics · phylogenetics
racial classificationracial unity
Cohesion among ethnic groups
color-blindness · racial integration · cosmopolitanism · egalitarianism · common humanity
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