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In 1923, the Supreme Court declared that "white" was not a scientific concept at all, but part of "common speech, to be interpreted with the understanding of the common man," which scholars later called the "social construction" of race. A. True B. False

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it is TRUE that In 1923, the Supreme Court declared that "white" was not a scientific concept at all, but part of "common speech, to be interpreted with the understanding of the common man," which scholars later called the "social construction" of race

Step-by-step explanation:

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States, had just decided that the meaning of white people for the statutory language and was to be interpreted as "words of common speech and not of scientific origin.

Social construct; this is an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society Class distinctions.

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