AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance

2.8 The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of Status

3 practice questions

Notes

Race is a social construct: laws and customs created racial categories to justify slavery and inequality. Hereditary slavery tied status to race and to mothers.

Practice

Saying race is a social construct means:

Colonial laws helped create racial categories in order to:

Hereditary slavery meant:

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