Which racial identity I check has nothing to do with my genes.

我选择哪一个种族身份与我的基因是毫无关联的。

Cooke, however, wanted to sing to all groups of people. He wanted to express his racial identity without offending whites.

但是库克想为所有人群唱歌。他想要表达自己的种族身份，同时又不冒犯白人群体。

And the way people see us forms part of our sense of identity, while another part comes from our ethnic—or racial—identity.

别人看待我们的方式，是构成我们认同感的一部分。而另一部分来自我们的种族身份。

But over the past ten years, our societies have become more and more fixated on racial identity.

但在过去的十年里，我们的社会变得越来越关注种族身份。

The more perspectives we have, the broader our understanding will be, especially from people who are at different points of racial identity development.

我们有越多观点，我们的理解也就会更广阔，尤其是这些观点最好能来自各种不同种族身分发展阶段的人。

Racial identity didn't come into my imagination until I went to America, because where I come from, everyone is black.

直到我去了美国， 种族身份才进入我的想象，因为在我来自的地方， 每个人都是黑人。

I wonder if you could share a little bit about the impact of the reporting on your own sense of racial identity.

我想知道您是否可以分享一下该报道对您自己的种族认同感的影响。

Some of the opposition came from women who said they wanted the ability to wear their hair in ways that are naturally an important part of their racial identity.

一些持反对意见的女兵表示，她们希望自己的发型能够自然成为她们种族身份的重要组成部分。

Today, questions of race and identity are studied by sociologists who work on racial identity theory, which looks at how individuals come to identify as a certain race.

今天，种族和身份问题由研究种族身份理论的社会学家研究， 该理论着眼于个人如何确定为某个种族。

Though he was originally named Frederick Auguste Kittel, Jr. after his mostly absent white German father, Wilson said he never questioned his racial identity because no one else seemed to.

尽管他最初以他几乎不在场的白人德国父亲的名字命名为小弗雷德里克·奥古斯特·基特尔 (Frederick Auguste Kittel, Jr.)，但威尔逊说他从未质疑过自己的种族身份，因为似乎没有其他人质疑过。

Described by these advocates as any coursework discussing topics through the lens of racial identities (which is well beyond the original definition used by the critical theorists themselves), they argue that this approach to pedagogy is divisive.

这些倡导者将其描述为通过种族认同视角来讨论某个主题的课程（这与批评理论家的原始定义远远相悖），他们认为这种教育学方法是分裂的。

All of these modern fields of study within race-conflict theory – racial identity, racial formation, racial politics, and racial resistance – they all have their origins in the work of one sociologist: W.E.B. Dubois.

种族冲突理论中的所有这些现代研究领域——种族认同、种族形成、种族政治和种族抵抗——它们都起源于一位社会学家的工作：W.E.B.杜波依斯。

Dubois didn’t only research racial identity, though – he also looked at the everyday lives of black and white Americans and wrote extensively about how and why their lives differed so drastically in post-slavery America.

不过，Dubois 不仅研究种族身份，他还研究了美国黑人和白人的日常生活， 并撰写了大量文章， 讲述了在奴隶制后的美国， 他们的生活如何以及为什么会发生如此巨大的差异。