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SBS Obsession with Race
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Robert Sussman, Franz Boas for starters.
"Franz Boas' major contribution to anthropology was his denial of race as a biological construct. During the late 19th century, anthropologists used biological features to justify racial divisions. Boas disagreed with this and proved that physical features are a result of evolution in one's environment, not evidence of human species...."
https://www.reference.com/world-view/franz-boas-major-contribution-anthropology-244cde5ce97d2b80#
See also:
http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas102%20(spring%2001)/articles/aaa_race.html
which gives the American Anthropological Association's views on the subject.
Race, as a classification system for the various groupings of humans, was debunked years an' years ago.
Unfortunately, because of the media and other ignorant groups, we seem to be stuck with the popular erroneous notion of 'race'.