The White House issued a presidential action which included a critique of how scholarship has been addressing the social construction of race.  It said:

“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth. …The Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power:  Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.”  The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.””

The idea that race is a “biological reality” has been used to imply that traits, behaviors, and capacities are innate and immutable — stable, inherited biological essences with differences in intelligence, morality, and cultural potential.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Western science and popular thought often divided humanity into a few broad “races:” Caucasoid (White). Negroid (Black), Mongoloid (Asian), and occasionally: Australoid (for Aboriginal Australians)

In the United States racial thought went further by subdividing the “White” or “Caucasian” category into strict hierarchical sub-races. Influenced by thinkers like Madison Grant, who wrote The Passing of the Great Race (1916). The “Nordicist” model ranked European ethnic groups by desirability and “fitness.” People from Northern and Western Europe were at the pinnacle.  Grant’s  thinking directly supported the racist Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed).

Look for the emergence of influence by Human Diversity Foundation, which promotes ideas suggesting inherent and important genetic differences among racial groups. Look for more references to countries such as Nigeria as shitholes.