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Historical race concepts
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Historical race concepts
The concept of
race
as a rough division of
human population
has a long and complicated history. The word
race
itself is modern and was used in the sense of "
nation
,
ethnic group
" during the 16th to 19th century, and only acquired its modern meaning in the field of
physical anthropology
from the mid 19th century. The
politicization
of the field under the concept of
racism
in the 20th century has led to a decline in racial studies during the 1930s to 1980s, culminating in a
poststructuralist
deconstruction
of
race as a social construct
. Since the 1990s, there has been renewed interest in questions of
race and genetics
and the study of
phenotypic
and
genetic
variability, and the quantitative study of
genetic clustering
.
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