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Race invented as a social construct from observations of the naturalists who precede science and biology. There was no scientific method, but observations were being documented and systematized. This gave rise to the theories about race which asserted the dominance of superiority of europeans, and this was used as justification for the horrors of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Issue here is that dominant groups always do things to reinforce dominance and stay in power. Marx - Conflict Theory (economic) -> Frankfurt School -> Critical Theory -> Herbert Marcuse -> Critical Social and Cultural Phemonena -> This lead to the study by Angela Davis who laid the bedrock of Black Feminism -> upgraded by Derek Bell and Kimberle Crenshaw, who said that it was wrong to deconstruct racial identity, because only a person in oppressor class has the perspective to do it, and that makes it forbidden and immoral, so we must determine oppression by looking at power disparity and ordering by oppressed intersections, with race taking precedence for aspect of oppression -> most influential in one's experience. Assume racism is the default and exists in every interaction, with oppressed internalizing their oppression. exit