The Origin of Race in the USA. Season 1 Episode 26 | 9m 22s Video has Closed Captions | CC. How did Americans come to believe that race equals visible physical characteristics? Aired 04/03/2018 ...

Still, both race, which describes one’s physical characteristics, and ethnicity, which encompasses cultural traditions such as language and religion, play significant roles in people’s lives ...

The pioneering African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois noted in 1906, "It is impossible to draw a color line between black and other races … in all physical characteristics the Negro race cannot ...

She's not saying that happens with every lawyer and every person. But she's saying there's a tendency to sort of see race not just through physical characteristics, but through social characteristics.

“Race” is usually associated with biology and linked with physical characteristics such as skin color or hair texture. “Ethnicity” is linked with cultural expression and identification.

Race is defined as a group of people distinguished by shared physical characteristics—aka as skin color, like being Black or white.

The pioneering African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois noted in 1906, “It is impossible to draw a color line between black and other races … in all physical characteristics the Negro race ...