There’s only one race. The HUMAN race. Ask God.
Biology, too.
Scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as race.
Here ya go, pulled out of one of my longer posts on ‘race’.
Next we’ll get into the actual ‘races’ within humanity. While our race is really just “human”, you *can* break us more into subspecies. Similar to how all dogs are one species, or ‘race’, but are broken into the various breeds/subspecies. Likewise, humans can be broken into several breeds within our race, which are generally referred to as ‘races’. Scientifically, there’s not a full consensus on exactly which ones are/aren’t, but it’s usually 3-5 options. Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid are the main ones, then some will add a fourth, Australoid (ususally included in Negroid), and others occasionally use Esquimaux (Mongoloid), Capoid (Negroid), Polynesian/Pacific (Mongoloid), American Tribes (Mongoloid), and other even more minor ones.
Most of these classifications are based on skull shape, and other physical definitions, not really skin color. (There’s light-skinned Negroids, and dark-skinned Caucasoids. Mongoloids tend to be more middling-light, but some of them can get pretty dark.) But, there’s a bunch of scientists nowadays that don’t even use these race classifications, and say there’s just no such thing as race. They like the term “ethnicity” better, and conveniently break it up into 5,000+ different groups, instead of three or four.
For most US government documents, the “race” column is completely arbitrary, confusing, and not well designed. Useless, really. I always check “other” and write-in “human”. There was actually potential legislation ten or twenty years back about amending the definition of Hispanic to include Portugal/Portuguese countries, but it failed. So that obviously tells you that “race” isn’t a set, defined characteristic at all.