Human Race Machine

Nancy Burson's idea of race being social versus genetic goes along with Nikki Lee's study of ethnography. For this project, Nikki not only dresses like these different cultures, like we saw in class, but she adapts to their lifestyle. She embraces their race and culture. What Nancy Burson is trying to get at with the idea of moving past difference and arriving at sameness is that race is simply a way to classify people. If we were to put ourselves in others positions, we'd realize that we're all human. Race is something we need to put past us to come to the understanding of others. I think it's obvious from Nikki Lee's study that race is definitely social. There are stereotypes of every race and class.