In the film clip from Race: The Power of an Illusion, Historian James Horton states, "You give me the power, I can make you any race I want you to be." In the history of race in the United States, who has played the largest role in dictating racial categories, as we understand them today?

The Judges

Explanation:

The court is responsible to create the concept of race and what must be done about it. A good example is the Jim Crow laws which played a central role in the segregation policies. It was just laws, but created concepts such as "different ones" and "black people as dangerous". When James Horton says that "you give me the power, I can make you any race", it means that laws and judgments are man created, such as race, and you believe what you want to believe.

- "the past is made of multitudinous items ranging from anything that can be collected, recollected or assessed to originate in the past. as such, the past is a gallimaufry of particulars that may not have been related in any way. however, the human mind seeks organization to understand concepts and other things. the human mind therefore seeks relationships in explaining and studying the past. history being a humanity, dictates that historians have to serve this human trait by bringing structure to details of the past. historians do this by creating interpretive frameworks that capture as many details as possible."

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