âRace isnât in our heads because itâs âreal,â race is real because itâs in our heads,â writes Dr. Laura E. GĂłmez, a UCLA law professor, in her latest book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of  American Racism. âWe think of race categories as essential and immutable, as reflecting notions of blood, stock, ancestry, and DNA. But they are actually political categories, reflecting the power of one group (whites) to definer other groups as inferior to them, as less than fully human.âÂ
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âRace isnât in our heads because itâs âreal,â race is real because itâs in our heads,â writes Dr. Laura E. GĂłmez, a UCLA law professor, in her latest book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of  American Racism. âWe think of race categories as essential and immutable, as reflecting notions of blood, stock, ancestry, and DNA….