Race Is Not Ancestry

This lesson explores the relationship between race and ancestry, highlighting that race is a sociopolitical construct rather than a biological reality. Students will learn about the fluidity of race categories and how ancestry testing reflects personal history and geographic origins

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Topics

  • census categories
  • racial identity
  • ethnicity
  • ethnic diversity
  • historical bias
  • race and ancestry
  • genetic testing
  • human evolution
  • ancestry testing
  • common ancestry