The Term African American

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The term is actually "social construction." It should mean to Ch2tf what it means to everyone, regardless of how the definition is worded:

Constructs like race are not biological but are instead social designations and result in certain social interactions and meanings. We create meaning in our observed differences between people and exaggerate whatever differences there are.

As Luther said "a chair is still a chair, even if there's no one sitting there" because we decided that there is a such thing as a "chair."