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The term race or racial group usually refers to the concept of categorizing humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. The most widely used human racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture), and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and... full article at wikipedia

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The Negro	W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois on Asia	W.E.B. Du Bois
Racism	Albert Memmi
Essays on race and empire	Nancy Cunard
Toward the final solution	George Mosse
The meaning of race	Kenan Malik
Race, Class, and Power	Leo Kuper
The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century	Thomas C. Holt
Between camps	Paul Gilroy
Race contacts and interracial relations	Alain LeRoy Locke
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Library of Congress Classification	GN	269.0	279.0
Library of Congress Classification	HT	1,501.0	1,595.0
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