The term "race" was most likely coined by Immanuel Kant, in German as rassen, to name his view that there were actually different kinds of people. The more comm

The term "race" was most likely coined by Immanuel Kant, in German as rassen, to name his view that there were actually different kinds of people. The more common view before Kant was that environment shaped people. It's not really true that race is a "socially construct". It's a specific belief about the nature of human beings, attributable to a specific person. As a fun side note, being "racist" means believing that race is a real thing. It has nothing to do with what one thinks of different races, how one feels about them, or whether or not one feels differently about them at all. Just be living that "race" names something true about humans makes a person a racist.