Higginbotham starts with multiple false assumption defining race as a measure of genotypic or phenotypic difference between human beings, or as most people assume that they can identify it when they see it. She defines race as a “highly contested representation of relations of between social categories”. This definition has some resonance to Glenda Gilmore article “Sex and Violence in Procrustes’s Bed” when she talks about middle class white men as they tried to assert their dominance around 1898. She also add “The recognition of racial distinction emanates from and adapt to multiple uses of power in society” where politics of power adapted this ideology of race in multiple ways in order to achieve to power. Democratic Party used this ideology
