#hernan vera

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Although the concept of race may be a fiction, we cannot simply jettison it because it ‘continues to be central to everyone’s identity and understanding of the social world.’ Today the vast majority of humans across the globe still think, feel, and act as if ‘race’ were real, as if it pointed to true, useful differences among people. Furthermore, no one alive today has lived in a world in which race did not matter.

Hernán Vera and Andrew M. Gordon, Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness