Race,” like gender, can be defined as a set of cultural signs assigned by various social mechanisms (which, as Althusser tells us, are largely ideological, largely part of the ISAs of a given culture) to human bodies. The physical traits of these bodies, as in gender, become signifiers of “race”; what is signified, then, are the ideologies of “race”—what and how “race” as a concept has social meaning.

As a set of signifiers attached to cultural signifieds, “race,” like any mode of signification, is arbitrary. There’s nothing inherent in hair texture, for instance, that indicates social role or ability, yet that is what the cultural constructions of “race” try to create.

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