The Relationship Between Race and Ideology In this essay I will argue that the key to ending racism is understanding race and ideology and how these two concepts relate to each other. Appiah claims that race does not exist. It uses scientific methods to demonstrate that individuals from different groups of people have no greater genetic differences between each other than genetic differences between individuals from the same group of people. He writes: "...the human genetic variability between the populations of Africa or Europe or Asia is not much greater than within those populations..." With this he tries to demonstrate that if there is no biological difference between populations, except those due to the habitat in which a given population has lived for many years. It therefore proves that there is no accurate meaning of the word race. Appiah uses the writings of WE DuBois in his discussions of race, his technique is to cite an argument made by DuBois and provide enough evidence to refute it. He does this with several statements and concludes that race is a misunderstanding. Although it divides the world's population into races and provides responses to racism, it does not give an explicit meaning to the word race. He uses history, culture and languages ​​to form different groups of people which he calls races. Loewen analyzes 12 American history books and focuses on the fact that they all try to hide anti-black racism throughout American history. It shows that the great ancestors of the United States were also racist, that they all owned slaves, and that they did not consider blacks equal. He also writes about the many years of beatings and lynchings suffered by blacks, too... middle of the paper... few high scores by blacks to fill the quota. The controversial part is that he doesn't prove that this gap actually occurs because black people have been oppressed for a long period of time and until the last hundred years (or less) have been able to develop culturally and economically, so they have a deficiency economy that prevents blacks from getting the best education possible. On the other hand, whites have an economic advantage so their children get a better education and a better chance of getting a better score. Furthermore, this shortage changes a black boy's priorities, because he will be more interested in attending a technical school or community college so he can start working faster and help support the family. In conclusion, I would like to say that race is a dangerous word. Bibliography: