Identify the nаme оf the аuthоr, the title оf the work, аnd the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. Race is an invention of long-dead ideologues and long-discredited scientists who collected skulls and told fairy tales about them. Perhaps you have sensed this already as you walk about the culturally diverse spaces of North America. Real human beings and their bodies and their faces and their idiosyncrasies don't' fit into the coloring books that the United States has created to illustrate what race means. Race is a story we tell ourselves about one another. In the case of people of Latin American descent, that story was born from a history of conquest and exploitation, and from our own acts of resistance to exploitation and prejudice.