From what I gather from the readings Race did not always exist. It wasn’t until the eighteenth century that people were categorized by the shared features and traits they possessed. Over the years people began looking to race to justify the way they categorized people and sometimes to justify their prejudices. “It has been established that any separate race (other than the human race) is not an actual scientific category and is, instead, a social construction” (Race, 2008). the concept of race originated as an ideology meant to justify colonization and exploitation of people who happened to be, usually, darker-skinned than their exploiters.
