We think we ‘see’ race when we encounter certain physical differences among people such as skin color eye shape, and hair texture,” the Smedleys wrote. “What we actually ‘see’ … are the learned social meanings, the stereotypes, that have been linked to those physical features by the ideology of race and the historical legacy it has left us.
-Isabel Wilkerson
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