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Peter Wade
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Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. Auhtor of Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Approach and Race and Ethnicity in Latin America.

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Overhead view of a diverse group of people standing in a circle, holding each other's hands in a gesture of unity and teamwork.
Race, the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences. Genetic studies in the late 20th century refuted the existence of biogenetically distinct races, and scholars now argue that “races” are cultural interventions…
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