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The American Association of Physical Anthropologists release a statement on race and racism.

Date: 2019

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Speaking out against the racist foundations of their discipline, the association states: "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" (AABA, 2019).