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"Identity" X
"There is only one ‘race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it" (Atwood). Race has become essential in society today as a way to rank and sort humanity into specific divisions that leads to discrimination. There is no possible way to classify individuals into a race based on physical traits. Early scientists tried to justify race based on visible physical difference. "Race … evolved as a world view, a body of prejudgments that distorts our ideas about human differences and group behavior" (AAA). Humans vary greatly biologically, but the term race has become a cultural category for sorting individuals and is not a biological reality, which has become the accepted concept throughout the world. In the following paper, I will also discuss the topics of the films American History X, Crash, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. All three films deal with topics centering around the injustices of race.
In the film, American History X, one family's story is......

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