Race is an essential aspect of the American experience. Metaphorically, it is the apple pie of our socio-political context. And that's why when some people call for the end of racism or racial divide, they are indirectly calling for the end of America; at least the old America which was founded as an experiment upon the division among races. 

How did the concept of race acquire such complexity and carved its space in the minds, hearts, and eyes of Americans? Initially, in previous centuries the distinction was among people of different continents. One was Asian, European, and African. Later on, these distinctions which used to be based upon geographical space acquired classifications such as superior and inferior. The distinction unfolded on the basis of Colonialist and imperialist enterprises. Through the Atlantic slave trade, Africa was divided among European countries and accordingly the people of Africa were classified as superior and inferior. Of course, Christianity played a major role since it is on the ground of Christianity and the need to free Africans of idolatry and backwardness that the Europeans proceeded to invade, control, and diminish Africans.

Consequently, the African became the Black entity, the child of Sham who was damned for seeing their father's nakedness; at least that was the biblical basis for enslaving Africans. So race is a historical concept that has been shaped y the various Imperialist, Colonial enterprises, and slavery. It bears the history of underprivileged people, suffering, and slavery. It is an accident that this concept found its empirical manifestation in skin complexion. One of the reasons is that skin complexion is a perpetual label that one can never take off. Thus one's belonging in the social and global scale is always wrapped around us. We are prisoners of our skin, our race. 

The exhibit aims at exposing the myths, scientific, social, hopefully religious that constituted the concept of race.