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More on the biological treatment of race

Following up on my partial defense of teaching race in the context of human biological variation, Anne Fausto-Sterling has a review of three recent books on the subject for the Boston Review. All three of the books reviewed seem interesting, … Continue reading

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In defense of the treatment of race, in part, on biological/scientific grounds

One of the first issues I want to unpack from my just completed seminar on race is the treatment of race, in part, as a topic of biological and scientific relevance. The history of scientific racism is the history of … Continue reading

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