How do you define race

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This is my first el alha in Egypt.  I am  so blessed to have amazing family and friends . Today was  independent and I realized that  some people truly  love me for me. Some people truly  not meant to stay in your life  bthey are here to teach you  values and lessons And  they  will leave you  . I have  some friends who have been with me through  my life and bad times. Egypt is amazing and changing my  perspective on life and the hereafter   . I love  my life and  family.  I  am truly happy and grateful and proud to be an advocate and and Egyptian American.  I love Egyptian culture.  I  remember when I  read an article about how  race is defined as a social constructs not a  single element not a is that Race does not really exist. The concept of  race is socially constructed identity, where the content and importance of racial categories is determined by social, economic, and political forces. People   tend to think of race either as an “essence, something fixed, concrete and objective,” but that belief is a misconception in reality the system of racial categories and stereotypes   is politically created to explain and understand the differences between individuals within the same group or categories and how they interact with other people outside of their groups in  society. This is because sociologists have discovered that there are more racial differences within a racial group or category than there are differences between racial groups or categories of people in society.   In other words, an African-American person can have more in common with a white person than he does with a group of other African-Americans. Racial meanings have varied tremendously over time and between societies."In the United States, the black/white color line has historically been rigidly defined and enforced. White is seen as a 'pure' category. Any racial intermixed makes one 'nonwhite.'"In Phipps case the rule of Hypodescent: the "one drop" rule — one drop of "black blood" automatic her  makes black. This case is significant because even though she lost the case Phipps’s problematic racial identity, and her effort to resolve it through state action, is in many ways a parable of America’s unsolved racial dilemma. It illustrates the difficulties of defining race and assigning individuals or groups to racial categories. It shows how the racial legacies of the past—slavery and bigotry—continue to shape the present. It reveals both the deep involvement of the state in the organization and interpretation of race, and the inadequacy of state institutions to carry out these functions..  The case demonstrates how deeply Americans both as individuals and as a civilization are shaped, and indeed haunted, by race. The designation of racial categories and the determination of racial identity is no simple task. 
A crucial dimension of the Phippps case is that it illustrates the inadequacy of claims that race is a mere matter of variations in human, appearance that it is simply a matter of skin color. But if race cannot be understood in this manner, how can it be understood? People cannot fully hope to address this topic of race no less than the meaning of race, its role in society, and the forces which shape it


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