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Reflects on racial classifications in the US, drawing on historical uses of race labels & the author's personal experience of coming from a multiracial Jamaican family. While the concept of race has become particularly dubious because of the amount of interbreeding, US society still considers race a biological reality. Deconstruction analysis highlights the subjective nature of US culture's dominant definition, while exposing the many alternative meanings these concepts & categories have assumed both across cultures & over time. Thus, racial categories represent legal & social fictions with no scientific grounds, their multiplicity only serving to underline its own ultimate intellectual groundlessness. The subsequent revelation of diversity calls into question the ethnocentric nature of US racial perceptions & conceptions. 66 References. R. Jaramillo