The Fallacy of Race Is Barack Obama a

The Fallacy of “Race”

• Is Barack Obama a “Black” man?

Mythology vs. Biology DNA studies have taught us that our gene pools are more mixed than we ever imagined.

• Jessica Szohr, Gossip Girl (Hungarian, African-American, Caucasian) • Adriana Lima, Victoria’s Secret Angel (African, West Indian, Japanese, and Portuguese)

• Derek Jeter, Baseball Player (Father: African-American) • Mariah Carey (Father: African-American and Venezuelan )

• Gabrielle Reece, volleyball star (father: African-Trinidadian) • Wentworth Miller, TV (father: African-American and European Miller is Identified as “an American actor”)

• Troian Bellisario, Pretty Little Liars (mother: African-Am TV producer) • Daniel Sunjata, TV (half African-American)

• Meghan Mackle, Suits (mother: African-American) • Jordan Sparks, singer/song-writer (half African-American; half Caucasian)

• Dwayne Johnson (African-American and Samoan) • Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy (Grandfather: Jamaican, a U. S. Ambassador to Sierre Leone)

• Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones’ daughter) • Nicole Richie (Father: Peter Michael Escovedo Adopted Father: Lionel Richie)

Moral of the Story • What this tells us is that the notion of “race” is a myth. We “construct” race based on our ideologies, not based on biology. • “Ethnicity” is a term that accounts for shared culture and seems to be more meaningful.