It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer … to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual … because of such individual's race , color, religion, sex, or national origin …

— Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, United States Code … family trees made more complicated by the intersection of different races … — Michael A. Chaney First, the [2020 US Census] question [about race ] is based on how you identify. Second, the race categories generally reflect social definitions in the U.S. and are not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. We recognize that the race categories include racial and national origins and sociocultural groups. — United States Census Bureau To the extent that economic opportunity is expanded, race relations are improved. — Tom McClintock also : the fact of dividing people, or of people being divided, into such groups : categorization by race The Army will remove photographs of candidates in promotion board hearings … as part of an effort to address why so many black officers are being passed over in favor of their white counterparts … . The removal of photos by the military's largest service is a tacit acknowledgment of how much race still plays a part in decisions about who should advance. — Helene Cooper The U.S. is going through a social and political upheaval, offering an opportunity to undertake a necessary, hard look at the role of race in defining what kind of a nation the U.S. is now and has been historically. — William C. Danvers