  -statements/aapa-statement-race-and -racism-2019/ > race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation. it was never accurate in the past, and it remains inaccurate when referencing contemporary human populations. humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. instead, the western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, european colonialism, oppression, and discrimination. it thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination. because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. in this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.
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