Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @12:54PM
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"Black" as a racial label or identity is only tangentially connected with complexion (or even predominant ancestry, because cultural attitudes of race are shaped by history, including in the US specifically, the One Drop Rule [0].)
Effectively, racial labels and identities are more about ethnicity (that is shared cultural identity [on the identity side] or shared ascribed kind of "otherness" [from the imposed labelling side]) than biology (either phenotype and genotype), though the latter influences the former.
(And "hispanic" is explicitly an ethnic label/identity, which applies to people ranging from completely European descent to completely African descent to descent completely from the indigenous peoples of South and/or Central America, and every possible combination in between, as well as some others.)
Effectively, racial labels and identities are more about ethnicity (that is shared cultural identity [on the identity side] or shared ascribed kind of "otherness" [from the imposed labelling side]) than biology (either phenotype and genotype), though the latter influences the former.
(And "hispanic" is explicitly an ethnic label/identity, which applies to people ranging from completely European descent to completely African descent to descent completely from the indigenous peoples of South and/or Central America, and every possible combination in between, as well as some others.)
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule